People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

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.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

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

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

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

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.