Charles Comiskey Quotes

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

A Warrior knows that everything a person does has enduring consequences.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Another real danger to young men is thoughtlessness and lack of consideration. Lack of thought is one simple reason why thousands of souls are cast away forever. Men will not consider,-will not look forward,-will not look around them,-will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present ways,-and awake at last to find they are damned for lack of thinking.

For want of a naile the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Many littles make a much.

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

Little things are great to little men.

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

Look at a child and realize that their future is in your hands. It's not just those who will be here fifty years from now. The decisions we make in the next ten years will shape the next 10,000 years.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.