Famous quotes containing the word misfortune:
“Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?... You carry your fortune in your own hand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Though someone is just sitting at home, misfortune can descend on him from Heaven above.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
—Frank Sinatra (b. 1915)