Darkly Comical Quotes

A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit. – Erasmus

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. – Dr. James G. Bilkey

The old Quaker was right: “I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.” – W.C. Gannett

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. – We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. – Thomas Jefferson

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. – Pascal

Curses are like processions; they return to the place from which they came. – Ruffini

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and, second, for poor men to know how rich men work. – E. Atkinson

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. – Goldsmith