History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
~By Socrates ~
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~By Voltaire ~
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
~By Virgil ~
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
~By Charles Simmons ~
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
~By Gideon Welles ~
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Misfortune was my god.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
~By Thucydides ~
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
~By Herodotus ~
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
~By Bert Williams ~
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
~By Chanakya ~
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
~By Pierre Bayle ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~By Amy Lowell ~
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
~By Sophocles ~
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
~By Epictetus ~
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
~By Lucius Accius ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
~By Washington Irving ~
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~By Aesop ~
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
~By Simone Weil ~
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~By Sophocles ~
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
~By Edith Wharton ~
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
~By Washington Irving ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
~By Simone Weil ~
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
~By Virgil ~
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~By A. C. Benson ~
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
~By Pierre Laval ~
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~By Aristotle ~
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.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
~By Loretta Young ~
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
~By Aeschylus ~
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
~By Hesiod ~
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~By Aesop ~
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
~By Marguerite Yourcenar ~
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
~By Walt Alston ~
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
~By Christopher Morley ~
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
~By Epicurus ~
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?
~By Gregorio M. Sierra ~
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
~By Euripides ~
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
~By Euripides ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
~By Franz Schubert ~
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
~By James F. Cooper ~
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
~By Epicurus ~
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
~By Franz Kafka ~
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
~By Walter Anderson ~
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