The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Bryant H. McGill

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Jack Buck

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.
Anton Seidl

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
James Thurber

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
Elizabeth Bowen

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
Mason Cooley

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
John H. Speke

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Giacomo Casanova

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Bill Copeland

The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.
Caroline Nichols Churchill

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas Jefferson

The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
Hugh Grant

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy