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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Written by Mark Twain
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Written by George Orwell
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Written by Brigitte Bardot
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Written by Samuel Johnson
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Written by Rita Mae Brown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Written by Isaac Asimov
Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Written by Antonio Porchia
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
Written by Kevin Spacey
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Written by Khalil Gibran
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Written by Kingman Brewster, Jr.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Written by Charles de Gaulle
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
Written by Albert Finney
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Written by Gore Vidal
You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
Written by Alan K. Simpson
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
Written by Red Skelton
The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent.
Written by Theodore C. Sorensen
They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.
Written by John Paul Stevens
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Written by Jackie Kennedy
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Written by Reinhold Niebuhr
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Written by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Written by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Written by H. G. Wells
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Written by James Russell Lowell
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Written by Jean Rostand
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Written by Maurice Chevalier
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Written by Helen Keller
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Written by Erma Bombeck
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Written by Woody Allen

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