We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Quotations
Worry
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
-William Inge
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-Theodore N. Vail
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.
-William Powell
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.
-Robert Jones Burdette
Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
-E. B. White
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
-Michel De Montaigne
"Essays"
If things go wrong, don't go with them.
-Roger Babson
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
