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.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
If, of all words of tongue or pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’ More sad are these we daily see; ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be!’
I ran away twice; once at about 13, and once at 17. There is not much satisfaction in it, even as a recollection. It was a couple of disappointments, particularly the first one. The heroics squish out of such things so promptly.
The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
