#seldom

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#comes #constantly #creatures #existent #finding

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ceased #had #i #opportunity #see

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gets #grateful #grow #humble #man

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gets #grateful #man #much #never

You seldom hear any young artists in country music. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#artists #country #country music #hear #music

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#his #reader #recognizes #seldom #solitude

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#innocent #lie #meet #round #seldom

I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#i #lighter #likely #music #play

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗