Definition of Seldom

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Definition of Seldom
	Seldom Rare; infrequent. Related Definitions: Infrequent, Rare

Seldom Quotations

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

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

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

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

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Seldom Translations

seldom in Afrikaans is selde
seldom in Dutch is zelden
seldom in French is rarement
seldom in German is selten
seldom in Italian is raramente
seldom in Portuguese is raramente
seldom in Spanish is raramente, contado

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