Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

you dont know what you got till its gone

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.