In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius 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
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko Copy Share Image
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
Four misfortunes befall a heedless man who commits adultery: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, thirdly blame, and fourthly a state of woe. — Buddha Copy Share Image
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it… — Mark Twain 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
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an… — Sanai Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally.… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard… — Adolf Hitler 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
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to… — Livy Copy Share Image
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
![“[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls…” quote by Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/saint-basil-4281_abundance_every-disappointment-or-misfortune-can-b_143853.jpg)
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