Darkly Comical Quotes

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The world is full of cactus, but we don’t have to sit on it. – Will Foley

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. – La Rochefoucauld

It is with life as with a play—it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is. – Seneca

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. – Edward R. Murrow

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man. – Cowper

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him who receives, and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed. – Erastus Wiman

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. – Cicero

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. – Petrarch