No one is exempt from speaking nonsense. The great…

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

— Michel de Montaigne

“No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly”

— Michel de Montaigne

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

— Tom Stoppard

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has…

— Franz Kafka

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

— Jules Verne

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

— Aristotle

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

— Slavoj Žižek

“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

— Baltasar Gracian

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political…

— Jefferson Davis

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

— Benjamin Franklin