All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. — Marie Leszczynska Copy Share Image
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Always blaming others for your misfortunes leaves you blinded to the fact that you, yourself, might be the problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of. — 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
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault,… — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
