Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination but Sancho Panza.

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.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall and increases but to decay.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

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.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.