Quotes of: Misfortune Keyword

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal stud...

Thomas Jefferson

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Democracy in America

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

The Grapes of Wrath

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

The Metamorphosis

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Voice of Reason

I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

Dan Hill

A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.

Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

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Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

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

Ovid

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Sophocles

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

Lajos Kossuth

Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious.

Mada Eliza Dalian

The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while, the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people.

Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

George Mason

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.

Marguerite Yourcenar

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Alphonse Karr