Children Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

— Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

— Oscar Wilde

“As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”

— Cassandra Clare

Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first…

— Simone de Beauvoir

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

— Malachy McCourt

“The kid, whose existence became a hallucination at seven, and a catastrophe at fourteen, and a disaster after that, whose vocation is to be…

— Philip Roth

“When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit”

— Sophocles

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to…

— Anonymous

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.”

— Anthony Powell

“A foolish son has no advantage over a wise orphan.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo