Quotes About Adversity

Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

What though the mast be now blown overboard,The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?Yet lives our pilot still.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;And after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

Patch griefs with proverbs.

Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'dWrack to the seaman, tempest to the field.

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips.

Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

One out of suits with fortune.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

The beastWith many heads butts me away.

So shaken as we are, so wan with care.

I am amaz'd, methinks, and lose my wayAmong the thorns and dangers of this world.

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

We have seen better days.

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.