Misfortune Quotes

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Misfortune was my god.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.