Disappointment Quotes

Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Samuel Johnson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

Shana Alexander

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Jeanne-Marie Roland

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Jonathan Swift

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.

Chuang-tzu

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

Andrew Mercer

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Juvenal

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Aeschylus

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell