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 disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.