| "One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early." »Anthony Trollope |
| "It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth." »Stanley Baldwin |
| "The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents." »General Omar Nelson Bradley |
| "It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus |
| "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." »Saint Augustine |
| "What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life." »Albert Einstein |
| "You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate." »Hubert Humphrey |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |