Rarely

Famous quotes containing the word rarely:

“The greatest, or rather the most prominent, part of this city was constructed with the design to offer the deadest resistance to leaden and iron missiles that might be cast against it. But it is a remarkable meteorological and psychological fact, that it is rarely known to rain lead with much violence, except on places so constructed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be “consistent.””
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)