178 Quotations with Misfortune.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to other ...
- 2. Charles Dickens: Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past ...
- 3. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at th ...
- 4. William Cobbett: Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you ...
- 5. Aesop: Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- 6. Lucius Accius: Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat.
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- 7. Dr. Laurence J. Peter: Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- 8. Plato: Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the g ...
- 9. Jean De La Bruyere: All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
- 10. Washington Irving: Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdue ...
- 11. Boris Pasternak: The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic dup ...
- 12. Eric Hoffer: They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failur ...
- 13. Author Unknown: A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misf ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 19. Oscar Wilde: Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
- 20. Walter Bagehot: A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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