It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. — Virgil Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
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
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
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen 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
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
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo 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
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
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political… — Marquis de Sade 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
“Presque tous les malheurs de la vie viennent des fausses idées que nous avons sur ce qui nous arrive. Connaître à fond… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything. — John Candy Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
