The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
Misfortune was my god.
I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.
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.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.