But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Edward Gibbon

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere

Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Zola Budd

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.
Spike Lee

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
Jack Lemmon

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Simeon Strunsky

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
James Thomson

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Fanny Burney

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin