Misfortune quotations

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◆ Sometimes we are too busy trying to get through a closed door that we miss the open window beside it.

- 99

◆ Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to

- Paul Valery98

◆ It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune

- Danish Proverb98

◆ It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

- Ulysses S Grant98

◆ Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother

- William Somerset Maugham98

◆ Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

- Plato98

◆ A man endures misfortune without complaint.

- Franz Schubert98

◆ The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

- Christopher Morley98

◆ The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

- Austin O'Malley98

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

- Joseph Addison98

◆ Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle98

◆ Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

- Washington Irving98

◆ Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition

- French Proverb98

◆ Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

- Nicholas Ling98

◆ Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

- Charles Dickens98