I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.
Cliff Stearns

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
Larry David

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
Brian Moore

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.
Anne Frank

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
William Glasser

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
William Cobbett

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.
Christine Keeler

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Otway

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.
Georges Duhamel