Quotes
Quotes about Misfortune
Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.
The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]
Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]
But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]
I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great.
There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
No one is exempt from taking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
