Misfortune Quotes

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

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

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

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

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

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

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

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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

Misfortune was my god.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

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

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