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

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

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.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

There is a pride a self-love in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Very learned women are to be found in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Popular opinions on subjects not palpable to sense are often true but seldom or never the whole truth.

Seldom very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.

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.

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

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling the confidence in success which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs they become naturally only objects of sense.

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

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

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.

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.

Religion for better or for worse has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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

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

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.