Misfortunes Quotes
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
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To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
