Top Misfortune Quotes
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley 
68% of people like this quote
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
67% of people like this quote
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
65% of people like this quote
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Alexander Herzen
65% of people like this quote
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
61% of people like this quote
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Charles de Secondat
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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
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Charles Simmons
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