Famous Quotes
178 Quotations with Misfortune.
- 161. Benjamin Disraeli: The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell in ...
- 162. Euripides: In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
- 163. Sam Houston: It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in c ...
- 164. Voltaire: The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
- 165. Russell Lynes: Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with symp ...
- 166. Moliere: When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that ...
- 167. Loretta Young: Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas o ...
- 168. Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning ...
- 169. Peter Nivio Zarlenga: The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
- 170. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fal ...
- 171. Joe Klock: It is the absence of immediate and compelling goals that leads to boredom, low e ...
- 172. Walter Anderson: I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening ...
- 173. Big Elk: Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our path. They grow everywhere.
- 174. Samuel Johnson: Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them ...
- 175. Sarah Ban Breathnach: Many of us unconciously create drama in our minds, expecting the worst from a si ...
- 176. Charles Caleb Coulton: The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Ou ...
- 177. Victor Hugo: For man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, i ...
- 178. Laurence J. Peter: Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.