Misfortune - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66036<![CDATA[A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42828<![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42829<![CDATA[When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42818<![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42819<![CDATA[Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not One friend to take his fortune ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42820<![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42821<![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42822<![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42823<![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42824<![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42826<![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827<![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42812<![CDATA[I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42813<![CDATA[As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42814<![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42815<![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816<![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42817<![CDATA[One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42806<![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42807<![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42808<![CDATA[It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. [Lat., Suave mari ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42809<![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42810<![CDATA[Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42811<![CDATA[The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42798<![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799<![CDATA[Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42800<![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801<![CDATA[I was a stricken deer that left the herd Long since. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42802<![CDATA[Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42803<![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42804<![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805<![CDATA[Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42791<![CDATA[Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42792<![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42793<![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42794<![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42795<![CDATA[It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42796<![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42797<![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42790<![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13808<![CDATA[Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8864