Quotes About Misfortune

A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.

Pray for God's mercy in the moment of misfortune.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.