Quotes About Misfortunes

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns.

the thirst I had of seeing the world, notwithstanding my past misfortunes, continuing as violent as ever.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Both stand charged with the rape of women; neither of them could avoid domestic misfortunes nor jealousy at home; but towards the close of their lives are both of them said to have incurred great odium with their countrymen, if, that is, we may take the stories least like poetry as our guide to the truth.

There are two roads to reformation for mankind—one through misfortunes of their own, the other through those of others: the former is the most unmistakable, the latter the less painful. One should never therefore voluntarily choose the former, for it makes reformation a matter of great difficulty and danger; but we should always look out for the latter, for thereby we can without hurt to ourselves gain a clear view of the best course to pursue.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Major Major's father had a Calvinist's faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.

For Ignatius, ingratitude was the "most abominable of sins," indeed "the cause, the beginning and origin of all sins and misfortunes.

Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does not mean freedom from anxiety and depression, but only the ability to cope with these afflictions in a healthy way. "An outstanding feature of successful adaptation," writes George Vaillant, "is that it leaves the way open for future growth." Of course, Abraham Lincoln's capacity for growth would prove enormous.

What do you want?" He considered. "Amusement, principally. Don't you think it's time my family shared in my misfortunes, as Christians should?

To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

It would seem that on hearing Abélard's lecture, Anselm of Laon became "wildly jealous," circumstances that Abélard assigned to every conceivable cause except the one that he had set in motion. "Since the beginning of the human race," Abélard observed with some asperity in his autobiography, Historia Calamitatum (A History of My Misfortunes), women have "brought the noblest men to ruin.