A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
Marguerite Yourcenar

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

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Lord Chesterfield

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

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFee

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

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?
Gregorio M. Sierra

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

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
Lajos Kossuth

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Alphonse Karr

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

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