This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone.… — Nido R Qubein 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
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered if some of the misfortunes in our lives are payment for the wages of our sins while we… — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. — Jules Verne 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