Quotes About Misfortune

The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is "how did you end up there?" Americans, it seems, find comfort in reasons and explanations. They honestly believe that if they can find the reason for someone else's misfortune, they can avoid that misfortune themselves. If they could find out how I ended up in the tenements, they could assure themselves that it could never have happened to them.

For the Gnostics and for the fiction writer evil is the source of all moral understanding; the function of evil, in the best of conditions, is tension and imbalance, the eventual creation, through suffering and misfortune, of wisdom.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

Bad things always happen in three.

Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

You're out of luck like two dogs stuck.

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.