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Quotes About Disappointment

There's a lot of spoiled Lakers fans.
~ D'Angelo Russell
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'
~ David Harsanyi
I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
~ Billy Koch
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
~ Helen Rowland
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.
~ Ruth Graham
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
~ Anthony Storr
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.
~ Michael C. Hall
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
~ Georgette Heyer
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
~ Betty Rollin
The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want and then when you see what the other fellow got you wish you had taken that.
~ Clarence Darrow
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
~ Robert Burns
I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.
~ Gene Cernan
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
~ Joe Strummer
You should know how many incompetent men I had to compete with-in vain.
~ Inge Lehmann
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
~ Paul Claudel
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
~ Orson Scott Card
Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
~ Hedy Lamarr
When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"
~ Henry David Thoreau
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
~ Monty Woolley
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
~ Arthur Balfour