Misfortune Quotes

"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune."
-William McFee

"Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences."
-Walt Alston

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."
-Lydia M. Child

"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
-Aristotle

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
-Plato

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
-Thucydides

"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune."
-Publilius Syrus

"It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the."
-Sam Houston

"A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault."
-Walter Bagehot

"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."
-Clarence Darrow

"This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them."
-Lionel Barrymore

"In the third inning they scored five on a couple of infield hits. They only hit one ball hard. Alex (Jenson) pitched fine, but we had a bit of misfortune there."
-Chris Fenske

"Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse."
-George James

"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable."
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism."
-Robert Hughes

"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
-Ovid

"The damage and casualty situation right now looks as if we have had some good fortune in the midst of this misfortune."
-Frank Hsieh

"I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power."
-Catullus

"As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,/ And none could be unhappy but the great."
-Nicholas Rowe

"You want to have a great event, but not because of someone else's misfortune."
-Mack Bradley

"One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune. "
-Swedish Proverb

"To be unhappy is only half the misfortune to be pitied is misery complete."
-Arthur Schnitzler

"Having a force in the post like Galvin is every coach's dream. It makes defenses double up on him, which always leaves someone open. We've, so far, been able to capitalize on that very misfortune for our opposition; it's been key to our success."
-Carl Charles

"DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it."
-Ambrose Bierce

"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
-Plutarch

"It's nice to be on the other side (of the misfortune). We've been on the other side of games like that. The kids were resilient and we got the breaks."
-Mike Bozich