Misfortunes Quotes

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Why, Others

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

Life, True, Friends

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Life, Power, Through

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Everyone, Common, Contented

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Men, Past, Blessings

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

Great, History, Political

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History, Crimes, Register

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

History, Nothing, Indeed

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

Education, Others, Nor

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Evil, Nothing, Before

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce

Good, Two, Others

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best, Friends, Find

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Others, Tear, Dried

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strong, Enough, Others

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Strength, Enough, Others

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give, Friends, Affection

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Strong, Enough

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

Great, Sunshine, Blessings

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason

Time, Experience, Greatest

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Through, Point

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

Men, Alone, Spring

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell

Good, Cheer, However

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

Ignorance, Clear, Gain

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

Life, Full, Happened

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Children, Bitter, Labours

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing, Him, Misery

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson

Life, Attitude, May

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thought, Fellows

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade

Thought, Others, Mode

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