Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. Votes: 3
Louise ColetMisfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. Votes: 3
Honore de BalzacKings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach. Votes: 3
Benjamin FranklinMisfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women. Votes: 3
John SteinbeckMisfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. Votes: 3
Janette RallisonUnless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. Votes: 2
Loretta YoungOpportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Votes: 2
Napoleon HillLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. Votes: 2
Washington IrvingTo lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Votes: 2
Oscar WildeAcceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. Votes: 2
William JamesFor this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. Votes: 2
AeschylusIt is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Votes: 2
Charles SimmonsWorry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. Votes: 0
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeIt is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellMilton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithPatience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. Votes: 0
Laurence SterneContentment travels rarely with fortune, but follows virtue even in misfortune. Votes: 0
Marie LeszczynskaEven when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. Votes: 0
Gabriel Garcia MarquezFailure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. Votes: 0
Hazrat Inayat KhanHappy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Votes: 0
Raymond QueneauFinding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... Votes: 0
Martin SeligmanAh! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born! Votes: 0
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du DeffandIn the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. Votes: 0
Isaac Mayer WiseNo hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. Votes: 0
Publilius SyrusMany men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauOpportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillCast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosIn other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonA tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnWe have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself! Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertMisery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyWhat molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. Votes: 0
Vincent Van GoghEach misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. Votes: 0
Og MandinoHistory is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind. Votes: 0
Peter AdejimiTo have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteOne must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. Votes: 0
AristophanesPeople are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. Votes: 0
William HazlittNo-one is exempt from speaking nonsense " the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneShare weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianIn misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. Votes: 0
PlautusMen are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. Votes: 0
Anna Cora MowattMy misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. Votes: 0
Henrietta SzoldThings joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside. Votes: 0
ZhuangziHappiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. Votes: 0
Nguyen DuPeople don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. Votes: 0
William McFeeFor there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. Votes: 0
Albert CamusNo one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) Votes: 0
Jeffrey R. HollandWe should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonThe swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollThe worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyIf slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. Votes: 0
Baruch SpinozaWhen Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillThe arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. Votes: 0
Simone de BeauvoirAll daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltGermany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinNot to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuIt is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. Votes: 0
Jane AustenThe purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. Votes: 0
Alan CohenAcceptance.Good and bad,Fortune and misfortune,Pleasure and pain,I want it all,Because it's mine. Votes: 0
Innocent MwatsikesimbeAs long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything. Votes: 0
John CandyThe world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamWhoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. Votes: 0
Albert CamusI will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. Votes: 0
MartialThe misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck. Votes: 0
Ruth Prawer JhabvalaMen do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineAfter making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteFor certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacHow true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! Votes: 0
Madame de StaelIt is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. Votes: 0
Baltasar Gracianfor he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. Votes: 0
Jane AustenIt is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Votes: 0
Arthur RimbaudI hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. Votes: 0
Charles DickensTo be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Votes: 0
Agnes RepplierWe exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacIt is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. Votes: 0
Christopher MarloweWhen I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteI still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead. Votes: 1 Matthew Rhys