| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. |
| Aesop | Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. |
| Ambrose Bierce | Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. |
| Anonymous | A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. |
| Boyd K Packer | Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. |
| Charles Dickens | Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. |
| Dr Laurence J Peter | Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. |
| James Russell Lowell | Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
| Nicholas Rowe | As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. |
| Pierre Corneille | By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. |
| Plato | 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. |
| Thomas Hood | One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! |
| Thomas Hood | Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair! |
| Washington Irving | Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. |
| Homer | 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. |
| John Milton | Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. |
| John Dryden | Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood, Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. |
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