Quotes About Misfortune

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors.

What was life but good barstools and bad ones, good fortune and bad, shifting from Sunday to Sunday, year to year, like the fortunes of the New England Patriots. There was no such thing as continual good fortune—or misfortune, except for the Red Sox, whose curse seemed eternal.

Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

The whole reason for telling the fairy tales is to awaken the heart. To help people believe that misfortune can be overcome and evil conquered.

It was bad luck for poor old Tommy.

And he says I have lousy timing

A clergyman can influence the mass of the people. If he preaches a sermon against the earl, or calls upon the saints to bring misfortune to the earl, people will begin to believe that the earl is cursed. Then they will discount his power, mistrust him, and expect all his projects to be doomed. It can be very hard for a nobleman to oppose a truly determined cleric. Look what happened to King Henry II after the murder of Thomas Becket.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.

One out of suits with fortune.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune.

William Shakespeare

A plague o' both your houses