Quotes About Adversity

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Yield not thy neckTo fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mindStill ride in triumph over all mischance.

I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

I'll queen it no inch further,But milk my ewes and weep.

What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke.

The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

He that has and a little tiny wit,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,Must make content with his fortunes fit,Though the rain it raineth every day.

Thus sometimes hath the brightest Day a Cloud; And after Summer, evermore succeeds Barren Winter, with his wrathful nipping Cold...

A man that fortune's buffets and rewardsHast ta'en with equal thanks.

A little fire is quickly trodden out,Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

When Fortune means to men most good,She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk...

There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.

It keeps on the windy side of care.

I am one, my liege,Whom the vile blows and buffets of the worldHave so incens'd that I am reckless whatI do to spite the world.