Famous quotes containing the word misfortune:
“You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one’s own.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Never in misfortune nor in prosperity may I share my dwelling with the tribe of women.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.”
—Frank Sinatra (b. 1915)