It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson 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
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
