Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune,… — Sylvia Porter 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
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
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
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos 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
Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
