Misfortune quotes

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.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

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.

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.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.