Mark Twain Quotes About Disappointment

• I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Years, Two

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.170, Courier Corporation

• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Father, Believe

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.288, Univ of California Press

• A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Men, Mind

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 22 (1889)

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