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Hope is the physician of each misery.
Hope is the physician of each misery.
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
No, misery makes sport to mock itself.
 The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
 [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.]  
 The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
 [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria aliorum.] 
 There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help 
smiling at, but they are the read more 
 There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help 
smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not 
dimples. 
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
 The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
 [Lat., Miserias properant suas
  Audire miseri.]  
 The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
 [Lat., Miserias properant suas
  Audire miseri.] 
 That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's 
misery.  
 That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's 
misery. 
 Meagre were his looks,
 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
  And in his needy shop read more 
 Meagre were his looks,
 Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
  And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
   An alligator stuffed, and other skins
    Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
     A beggarly account of boxes,
      Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
       Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
        Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.