Misfortune Quotes

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

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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

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.

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

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.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

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.