“I have often wondered if some of the misfortunes in our lives are payment for the wages of our sins while we… — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no security in a good disposition if the support of good principles--that is to say, of religion, of Christian faith--be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone.… — Nido R Qubein Copy Share Image
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is:… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unimaginative people give up when bad things happen to them, while wise people keep going and overcome their misfortunes. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
