Darkly Comical Quotes

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The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn’t cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work. – William Feather

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of commonsense to apply it. – Persian Proverb

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. – Samuel Reyburn

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

All businesses proceeds on beliefs, or judgments or probabilities, and not on certainties. – Charles W. Eliot

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasure and genial feeling. – Cooleridge

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. – John Burroughs

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owners knows not of. – Swift

Darkly Comical Quotes

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Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things and, second, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. – Colton

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish. – Sir Thomas Buxton

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. – W. D. Howells

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in the world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him. – Thomas Hughes

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear. – E. H. Harriman

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded and labor starves. – Daniel Webster

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. – Anthony Trollope

A quiet conscience makes one so serene. – Byron