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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
— Austin O'Malley
The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.
— Frantz Fanon
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
— Peter Nivio Zarlenga
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
— Jane Austen
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
— William Faulkner
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
— Victor Hugo
Man's misfortune stems from the fact that he does not want to stay in the room where he belongs.
— Patrick Suskind
Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.
— Bert Williams
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
— William Hazlitt
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
— Franz Schubert
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
— Charles M. Schwab
He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
— P.G. Wodehouse
[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.
— Gene Wolfe
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
— Walter Bagehot
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.
— Honore De Balzac
If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open.
— J.G. Bennett
What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
— William Graham Sumner
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
— Seneca The Younger
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
— Franz Schubert
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
— Aeschylus
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial
with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
... in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.
— David Rain
That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!
— Jane Austen
Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.
— Charles Dickens
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
— Lawrence Durrell