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"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." »Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honor
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"Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune." »William McFee
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"misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Never find your delight in another's misfortune." »Publilius Syrus
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"misfortune shows those who are not really friends." »Aristotle
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." »Plutarch
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"This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude." »La Bruyere
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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early." »Anthony Trollope
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"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing." »Hesiod
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"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." »William James
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"One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph." »Virginia
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"Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself." »The Hitopadesa
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"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 Stephenson
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"A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate." »La Rochefoucauld
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"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
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"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
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"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about." »Saskya Pandita
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"As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency." »Bharavi
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"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to." »Paul Valery
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde
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"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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"Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself." »Claude Roy
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"A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune." »Author Unknown
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"It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself." »Epictetus, Enchiridion
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"I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in." »Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance." »Clarence Darrow
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"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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