Mischance Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart… — George William Curtis
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. — Thomas Hobbes
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… — Jorge Luis Borges
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the… — Tiberius
It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I did, or said,… — John George Haigh
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. — William Shakespeare
The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them. — J.R.R. Tolkien
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them,… — Aristotle
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never… — Marie de France
OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce
The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Mischance Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 14 Mischance Quotes as follows: