Misfortune
Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
Related Definitions:
Accident,
An,
Bad,
Calamity,
Disaster,
Evil,
Fail,
Fortune,
Happen,
Luck,
Miscarry,
Mischance,
Mishap,
Or,
To,
Unluckily
Misfortune Quotations
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
Marcus Aurelius
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
Misfortune Translations
misfortune in Dutch is ongeluk
misfortune in French is malheur
misfortune in Italian is guaio
misfortune in Latin is calamitas, infortunium, malum, infelicitas
misfortune in Spanish is infortunio
misfortune in Swedish is olycka
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