Definition of Misfortune

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Definition of Misfortune
	Misfortune Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. Related Definitions: Accident, An, Bad, Calamity, Disaster, Evil, Fail, Fortune, Happen, Luck, Miscarry, Mischance, Mishap, Or, To, Unluckily

Misfortune Quotations

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Misfortune Translations

misfortune in Dutch is ongeluk
misfortune in French is malheur
misfortune in Italian is guaio
misfortune in Latin is calamitas, infortunium, malum, infelicitas
misfortune in Spanish is infortunio
misfortune in Swedish is olycka

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