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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
The concept of what we're looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.
Contentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune.
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth.
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
with reading a hundred epigrams.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
