Quotes About Misfortune

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

I am a lone lorn creetur… and everythink goes contrairy with me.

It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.

I remembered Tucker telling me that luck was no lady; luck was a mean drunk who didn't know when to stop punching.

I'm a babe magnet — but the wrong end.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!

Everything you touch turns to broken.

That's bad luck: three on a midget.

Constancio C. Vigil: "Desdichado del hombre que finca su fortuna en la caída de un árbol".

One's hard luck and misfortune form the measuring stick for future good luck and fortune.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

I went to Spain with my brother when I was about 17. We stayed near Barcelona and it was terrible. There were floods and I ended up missing my flight home.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

obscene wealth, was often more of a curse than a blessing.

Adrenaline is always shimmering around in a theater, which you don't get so much in normal life unless you're scared or something goes amiss.

the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.