"seldom" in the adverb sense
1. rarely, seldom
not often
"we rarely met"
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not often
"we rarely met"
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seldom
Silence seldom hurts. [ Proverb ]
Vices are seldom single. [ Robert Hall ]
The cautious seldom err. [ Confucius ]
Barking dogs seldom bite. [ Proverb ]
Angry men seldom want woe. [ Proverb ]
Drawn wells are seldom dry. [ Proverb ]
Ill vessels seldom miscarry. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Two of a trade seldom agree. [ Proverb ]
Good workmen are seldom rich. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Good and quickly seldom meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Wine counsels seldom prosper. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The wise man is seldom prudent. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Common fame is seldom to blame. [ Proverb ]
Ill fortune seldom comes alone. [ Dryden ]
Late repentance is seldom true. [ Proverb ]
Love seldom dies a sudden death. [ Saurin ]
Power seldom grows old at Court. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Ill gotten goods seldom prosper. [ Proverb ]
Virtue is seldom followed gratis. [ Proverb ]
A threatened blow is seldom given. [ Proverb ]
Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. [ William Shakespeare ]
Treason seldom dwells with courage. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He who suspects is seldom at fault. [ Italian Proverb ]
Cities seldom change religion only. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Salt spilt is seldom clean taken up. [ Proverb ]
Hasty resolutions seldom speed well. [ Proverb ]
Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. [ Proverb ]
Riches seldom make their owners rich. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Big words seldom accompany good deeds. [ Danish Proverb ]
Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows. [ Proverb ]
A good horse should be seldom spurred. [ Proverb ]
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great and good are seldom the same man. [ Proverb ]
Audacity of thought is seldom forgiven. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Prosperous men seldom mend their faults. [ Proverb ]
Unequal marriages are seldom happy ones. [ Proverb ]
Things are often spoke and seldom meant. [ William Shakespeare ]
We seldom repent having eaten too little.
We seldom find out that we are flattered. [ Proverb ]
Wisdom seldom consorts with extravagance. [ Mendemus ]
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
Thou chiefest good,
Bestowed by heaven, but seldom understood. [ Lucan ]
Books are not seldom talismans and spells. [ Cowper ]
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. [ Cowper ]
We seldom confide a secret: it escapes us. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
Frenzy, heresy, and jealousy, seldom cured. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
To him that wills, ways are seldom wanting. [ Proverb ]
Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner. [ Proverb ]
Always something new, seldom anything good. [ German Proverb ]
A man of gladness seldom falls into madness. [ Proverb ]
My, crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. [ Shakespeare ]
He that fears danger in time seldom feels it. [ Proverb ]
Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together. [ Lavater ]
Great wealth and content seldom live together. [ Proverb ]
One danger is seldom overcome without another. [ Proverb ]
Disappointment seldom cures us of expectation. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]
Pride seldom leaves its master without a fall. [ Proverb ]
A good tongue has seldom need to beg attention. [ Proverb ]
For daring nonsense seldom fails to hit,
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. [ Butler ]
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast. [ Swift ]
The heart is in motion always, the brain seldom. [ G. D. Prentice ]
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [ Campistron ]
A grunting horse and a groaning wife seldom fail. [ Proverb ]
Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. [ Beauchene ]
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. [ Sir Roger l'Estrange ]
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. [ Pope ]
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. [ Shakespeare ]
Great persons seldom see their face in a true glass. [ Proverb ]
Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished. [ Bacon ]
A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to restitution. [ Junius ]
They seldom live long who think they shall live long. [ Proverb ]
He that woos a maid must come seldom in her sight,
But he that woos a widow, must woo her day and night. [ Proverb ]
Where words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act II. Sc.1 ]
One jeer seldom goes forth but it brings back its equal. [ Proverb ]
A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. [ Juv ]
Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
They say, the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention, like deep harmony;
Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;
For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. [ Petrarch ]
Wit and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together. [ Proverb ]
Argument seldom convinces any one contrary to his inclinations. [ Proverb ]
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. [ Fenelon ]
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least. [ Johnson ]
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. [ Tupper ]
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. [ L'Estrange ]
Jests are seldom good the first time, but the second distasteful. [ Proverb ]
It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue. [ Bacon ]
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. [ C. N. Bovee ]
Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]
It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot. [ George Washington ]
Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. [ R. Venning ]
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. [ Proverb ]
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! [ Shelley ]
Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude. [ Zimmermann ]
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. [ Livy ]
A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latinbred woman seldom end well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fathers, in reclaiming of a child, should outwit him, and seldom beat him. [ Proverb ]
It is very seldom that a great talker hath either discretion or good manners. [ Proverb ]
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient. [ Martin Van Buren ]
Advice is seldom welcome; those who want it the most always like it the least. [ Chesterfield ]
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]
Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. [ Spu rgeon ]
Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes. [ Lady Blessington ]
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. [ Fielding ]
A happy jest often gives birth to another; but the child is seldom worth the mother. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. [ N. P. Willis ]
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. [ Sir J. Stephen ]
We frequently pass from love to ambition, but one seldom returns from ambition to love. [ Rochefoucauld ]
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. [ Colton ]
They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. [ South ]
A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief. [ Hare ]
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused. [ Gibbon ]
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. [ Colton ]
Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. [ Lady Blessington ]
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]
Very learned women are to be met with, just as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [ La Bruyere ]
I have seldom known any one who deserted truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance. [ Paley ]
Friendship is seldom lasting, but between equals, or where superiority is reduced by some equivalent advantage. [ Johnson ]
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]
One cause of the insufficiency of riches (to produce happiness) is, that they very seldom make their owner rich. [ Johnson ]
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. [ Landor ]
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors, but they are seldom or never inventors. [ Voltaire ]
We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard. [ Hazlitt ]
He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. [ Lavater ]
He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it. [ Bishop Horne ]
The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. [ J. M. Barrie ]
None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. [ Colton ]
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered.
[ Lavater ]
The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. [ Montaigne ]
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]
Woman seldom hesitates to sacrifice the honest man who loves her, without pleasing her, to the libertine who pleases her, without loving her. [ A. Ricard ]
Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]
Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them. [ Fielding ]
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail. [ W. E. Channing ]
Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [ Seneca ]
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. [ Hazlitt ]
Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous. [ F. Schubert ]
He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of tomorrow. [ Johnson ]
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. [ Martial ]
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]
That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it. [ Johnson ]
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. [ Hume ]
Ask men of genius how much they owe to their mothers, and you will find that they attribute almost all to them and their influence; and if we could only guage the mental capacity of the wives of great men, we might perhaps learn why genius is so seldom hereditary. [ Lord Kames ]
Pain itself is not without its alleviations. It may be violent and frequent, but it is seldom both violent and long-continued; and its pauses and intermissions become positive pleasures. It has the power of shedding a satisfaction over intervals of ease, which, I believe, few enjoyments exceed. [ Paley ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
Mutability is the badge of infirmity; it is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike; now he is for marrying, and now a mistress is preferred to a wife; now he is ambitious and aspiring, presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he; this hour he squanders his money away, the next he turns miser; sometimes he is frugal and serious, at other times profuse, airy, and gay. [ Charron ]
Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]
There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]
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