Darkly Comical Quote

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. – Cadman

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. – James A. Garfield

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. – Katherine Mansfield

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. – Sydney Smith

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Addison

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. – James Russell Lowell

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but instruments of the wise. – Samuel Lover

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. Adam Smith (1776)