Darkly Comical Quotes

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. – Victor Cousin

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. – Ulysses S. Grant

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. – Gordon Graham

Many do with opportunities as children at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. - T. Jones

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. – Louis Kosuth

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. – Cicero

Many a man never fails because he never tries. - Norman MacEwan

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. – Johnson

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. - Thales