A Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Faithful Misfortune Parent Rashness Unhappy

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R. Buckminster Fuller
American - Inventor
July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983

Although a friend may remain faithful in misfortune, yet none but the very best and loftiest will remain faithful to us after our errors and our sins.

Frederic Farrar

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

Terry Crews

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.

Dennis Prager

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Soren Kierkegaard

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Boethius

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

John Climacus

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Alexandre Dumas

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Carroll Shelby

Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen.

R. C. Sproul

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

Karl Lagerfeld

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.