“Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to… — Nathan Yocum Copy Share Image
“When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.” — Simon Beckett Copy Share Image
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I DON’T BELIEVE IN DESTINY. WE ARE NOT BORN TO BECOME ONE THING OR ANOTHER, left to follow helplessly a course that… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes… — Danielle Teller Copy Share Image
Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is shinning, think of the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Whatever the hardship of life, and whatever the harshness of test and trial was, the same fate with which our misfortune is… — Mohamed Adly Copy Share Image
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God loves the simple, the poor, weak, sick, lonely and the forgotten. May you not forget about them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. — Nguyen Du Copy Share Image
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image
“to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people… — Ousmane Sembène Copy Share Image
“What a sad misfortune is to have body in one place and soul in another...I love to feel free...” — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The poorest person in the world is not the one without a single coin in his hand, but the one without GOD… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
![“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life, therefore, that [they]... make, the more often [they] will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered.” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f0b/c-s-lewis-121_blame_men-are-not-angered-by-mere-misfortune-b_1957926.jpg)
