Quotes About Misfortune

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

If you shared your happiness with journalists, you shouldn't be surprised if they were interested in your misfortune as well.

errors and mistakes, however gross, in matters of opinion, if they are sincere, are to be pitied, but not punished nor laughed at. The blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied as the blindness of the eye; and there is neither jest nor guilt in a man's losing his way in either case. Charity bids us set him right if we can, by arguments and persuasions; but charity, at the same time, forbids, either to punish or ridicule his misfortune.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

Happiness may perhaps be shared. But not luck, sadly.

A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person.

It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.

Blessings are just curses that other people envy.

Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude.

No hay consuelo mas hábil que el pensamiento de que hemos elegido nuestras desdichas.

Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?

It is really unjust to the Vienna governmental circles to reproach them with having instigated a war which might have been prevented. The war was bound to come. Perhaps it might have been postponed for a year or two at the most. But it had always been the misfortune of German as well as Austrian diplomats that they endeavoured to put off the inevitable day of reckoning, with the result that they were finally compelled to deliver their blow at a most inopportune moment.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashion don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.

For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.

Jag flirtar flitigt med flickan Lycka, Med gumman Otur förblir jag gift; Min älskarinna är fru Fortuna, fast hon bedrar mig och är dyr i drift.

Nah, kalian para perawan remaja, telah aku susun surat ini untuk kalian, bukan saja agar kalian tahu tentang nasib buruk yang menimpa para gadis seumur kalian, juga agar kalian punya perhatian terhadap sejenis kalian yang mengalami kemalangan itu.

All is luck or ill luck in this world.

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.

Fortune favours fools