Misfortune Quotes

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. Austin O'Malley
Man Father Extraordinary Worst Misfortune Happen Ordinary Ordinary Man
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living. A. J. Bowen
Living Think Say Misfortune Fair Making Making Movies Movies Plague
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. Aeschylus
Men Picture Painting Misfortune Sponge Fair Glitter Like Prosperous Wet Blow Blurred Lives
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me. Alan Kay
Time Me Age Three Lying Fluently Books Misfortune Had Knew Learn Read How Were Hit Grade Maybe Teachers Fortune Starting By The Time
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
Blame World Fault Ours Neither Born Misfortune No-One Nor Being Dying Whole
We learn by misfortune. Anita Dobson
Misfortune Learn
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Arthur Rimbaud
You Parents Own Misfortune Am Caused Baptism Your Slave
Misfortune was my god. Arthur Rimbaud
God Misfortune
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
Me Prosperity Matter Weather Mood Foggy Fine Misfortune Days Within Little Connection
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
Knowledge Enemy Control Destroy Possession Misfortune Freedoms Makes Greatest Authority
It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.' Charles A. Beard
Sad Work Saying Man Struggle Old Devil Indeed Released Would Atrophy Fact Misfortune Idleness Were According Which Organs Workshop Function Necessity
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. Dan Hill
Best Reality People Doctor Doctors Own Control Think Our Misfortune Know Masters Lot Going Just Want Us Fortune Help
I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously. Debra Granik
Hope Seriously Looking Others Someone Misfortune Take Ray Because Always Very Times Hard Hard Times Shred
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement. Douglas Kirkland
Women People Men Face Men And Women Somebody Skin Think Type Unrealistic Gives Perfect Misfortune Feels Because Got Refinement Esteem Flaws Many Right Levels
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer
Parenting Financial Behavior Reward First Own Rules Out Bad Moral Bad Behavior Misfortune Hazard Had Bailout Make Because Said Same Bank Banks Again Created Incentive Acts Differently Loans
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
Character Better Single Everyone Dares Misfortune He True True Character His German Than Authors Them Expose Thinks
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny. Gilbert Gottfried
Funny Me Else Someone Misfortune Another Very Person Any Happens
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
Fault Lawyer Prison Own Several Visited My Own Through Misfortune Had Occasionally Clients Years Going Them
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
Woman Natural Old Type Destiny Poetry Prevents Maid Seldom Misfortune Ideal Sorrow Very Old Maid Fulfilling Whom Her
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. Lajos Kossuth
Me Broken Confidence Hungary Believe Shaken Misfortune Nor
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand. Laura San Giacomo
Misfortune Hand Fortune Many Need
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. Marguerite Yourcenar
Family Sometimes Beginning Young Other Musician Scales Bores Only Writer Misfortune Print His Hand Getting Room Plays
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune. Marie Curie
Death Knowledge Husband National Circles Immediately General General Knowledge Misfortune Name Felt Scientific Coming His Discoveries After Which Public Associated
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. Ovid
You Heart Misfortune Call Affectionate Confess Whether Soft
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. R. Buckminster Fuller
Unhappy Faithful Parent 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. Russell Baker
Politics Humanity World Events Rest Thrive Indecent Pleasure Misfortune Take Reporters Often Dismay Reason
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