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.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator most probably from a life to misery and misfortune and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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

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.

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.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

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.'

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?

Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.