It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 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
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again,… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
