A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Richard Wagner

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
George Chapman

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
Earl of Chesterfield

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
Hedy Lamarr

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
Todd Solondz

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Pliny the Elder

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
Indira Gandhi

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.
Lord Halifax

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Lord Chesterfield

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
Charlotte Whitton

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.
John James Audubon