Quote of the Day (George Eliot, on Disappointment)

"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ’Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others." — George Eliot, Middlemarch (1874)

Quote of the Day (Eric Lyden, on Disappointing Himself)

“I’ve always been a disappointment. When I was five, I looked down at the crayons I was coloring with and sighed—when I was two, this is not what I saw myself doing at five.”—Comic Eric Lyden, comedysmack.com, quoted in “Laugh!”, Reader’s Digest, June/July 2010