Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally… — Joseph Addison
We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are… — William Melmoth
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent… — Lydia Sigourney
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. — Napoleon Hill
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks… — Clay Shirky
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only… — Alfred Nobel
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The memory of man is as old as misfortune — Lawrence Durrell
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be… — Unknown Author
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation,… — Almeida Garrett
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. — George Washington
I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can… — Bruce Lee
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or… — Napoleon Hill
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we… — Jorge Luis Borges
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in… — Zhuangzi
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole… — Eknath Easwaran
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. — Sophocles
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided… — Michel Houellebecq
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the… — Jean Paul
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the… — Anatoly Karpov

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