Quotes About Misfortune

Calamity was ordained for man.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Good music always defeats bad luck

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.