Misfortune Quotes

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Misfortune was my god.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

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.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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.

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.

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

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

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

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

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.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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.

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.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

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.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.