(169 quotes found)
“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.”
Plato
“The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune”
Plutarch
“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
Epicurus
“...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of a person we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation--a book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka
“Quiet minds can't 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
“Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in a rolling tides”
Irish Sayings
“A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault”
Walter Bagehot
“Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.”
Lord Acton
“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
Alphonse Karr
“(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea”
Mark Twain
