Darkly Comical Quotes

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Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. – Lewis E. Lawes

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words. – Edwin H. Stuart

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. – Lord Jeffrey

Someone has well said, “Success is a journey, not a destination.” Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them. – Robert R. Updegraff

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. – Horace Rutledge