Famous quotes containing the word misfortune:
“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Though someone is just sitting at home, misfortune can descend on him from Heaven above.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”
—Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)