
The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. —
Democritus

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order. —
Napoleon Hill

That's
the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final. —
Marie Dressler

I assume he is the one unfortunate enough to be called Ptolemus. —
Victoria Aveyard

...a great man. But...not quite great enough. —
Lois McMaster Bujold

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors. —
Laozi

Every rumor is believed against
the unfortunate. —
Publilius Syrus

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. —
Helen Keller

Inside these letters, the eye will see
Nearby are your friends, and VFD. —
Lemony Snicket

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for
the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable. —
Judith Martin

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do. —
Vance Gilbert

It is unfortunate to have views different from the rest of mankind. It secures abuse. —
Daniel Harvey Hill

She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away. —
Peadar O'Guilin

It was an unfortunate coincidence that despite the new television set's perfect rendition of color the first show that came on was all about zebras. —
Anonymous

Truth has a very unfortunate tendency (for the conspirators) to ultimately come out in the open. —
Pradip Baijal

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. —
G. Gordon Liddy

Am I not as much a doctor as they? I too have my patients; in the first place, theirs, whom they call sick; and then my own, whom I call unfortunate. —
Victor Hugo

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. —
Jean De La Fontaine

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for
the unfortunate is not socialism. —
Hubert H. Humphrey

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit. —
Daniel Kehlmann
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence ... —
Eliza Parsons

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. —
Karl Kraus

I'm always put in
the unfortunate position of asking people to donate money and people I know in bands to play benefit concerts and all this stuff. —
Flea

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand. —
John Muir

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that. —
Rooney Mara

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man. —
Rajneesh

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve. —
Richelle E. Goodrich

Destroy desire completely for the present. For if you desire anything which is not in our power, you must be unfortunate —
Epictetus

There is a point when
the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables —
Victor Hugo

IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE. —
Pseudonymous Bosch

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. —
Harry Stack Sullivan

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex. —
Birch Bayh

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. —
Seneca The Younger

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for
the unfortunate. —
Democritus

Events that look unfortunate or challenging at the human level are actually taking us to higher levels in the evolution of our soul. —
Santosh Joshi

We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter ... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race. —
James Joyce
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective. —
Jon Stewart

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting. —
Jai Rodriguez

The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also. —
Democritus

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. —
Benjamin Disraeli

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance. —
Francis Of Assisi

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. —
Sonia Sotomayor

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. —
Ovid

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. —
Plutarch

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. —
Albert Einstein
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. —
Aristotle.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. —
W. Somerset Maugham

And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ... —
William Bennett

It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings. —
Liane Moriarty

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. —
George Mikes

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field. —
Adah Isaacs Menken

It is the nature of
the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. —
Plautus

We print 37 million copies, and we found out about
the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed. —
Olivia Newton-John

How unfortunate that sailing was one of the few occupations where a man could be praised for failing, so long as he did it bravely. —
Alexandra Bracken

Love has a most unfortunate effect on the brain, —
Elizabeth Peters

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate. —
Bill Bradley

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press. —
Cameron Van Der Burgh

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser." —
Pema Chodron

Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate. —
Amish Tripathi

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and
the unfortunate. —
Robert Green Ingersoll

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate. —
Marguerite De Navarre

Curiosity creeps into the houses of
the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity. —
Friedrich Nietzsche

Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. —
Maria Edgeworth

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel. —
H.G.Wells

Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of
the unfortunate to be tedious! —
Sophia Lee

I sincerely regret
the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps ... —
Harry S. Truman

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. —
Ambrose Bierce

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help
the unfortunate. —
Virgil

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely. —
Napoleon Hill

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me. —
Ariana Grande

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. —
Norman Schwarzkopf

How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman. —
Manu Joseph