Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
Disappointment Quotes
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!”
Never burn your fingers to snuff another’s candle.
From a fallen tree, make kindling.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
