Disappointment

A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed

There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship