A Quote by Boyle Roche

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Boyle Roche

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Boyle Roche
Irish - Politician
1736 - 1807

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 studies and endeavors of our lives.

Thomas Jefferson

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

Willa Cather

Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

Rick Renzi

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Charles Dickens

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

John Adams

I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.

Jean Beliveau

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Misfortunes never come singly.

Anne Frank

Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings. What are we going to call good? What are we going to call bad? Good or bad is never our choice, or even the issue.

Steve Hagen

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!

Jules Verne

Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.