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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. John Grisham

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Laurence J. Peter

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Charles R. Swindoll

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Aristotle

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Lydia M. Child

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Bryant H. McGill

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Loretta Young

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Blaise Pascal

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Ferdinand Marcos

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arthur Rimbaud

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Hesiod

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Euripides

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Alexander Herzen

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

William McFee

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

George Mason

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Lafcadio Hearn

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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 Valery

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Montesquieu

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Virgil

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

Franz Grillparzer

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Isaac Mayer Wise

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Thucydides

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Herodotus

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Alphonse Karr

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Emil Cioran

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Ulysses S. Grant

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Lionel Barrymore

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Franz Schubert