One more Unfortunate
Weary of breath.
Rashly importunate.
Gone to her death. [ Hood ]
The unfortunate are counted fools. [ Proverb ]
The unfortunate are always egotistical. [ Beaconsfield ]
The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate. [ H. W. Shaw ]
An unfortunate man's cart is apt to overthrow. [ Proverb ]
The unfortunate who prays is already consoled. [ Millevoye ]
Look unto those they call unfortunate;
And, closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise. [ Young ]
If you are too unfortunate nobody will know you. [ Proverb ]
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. [ La Fontaine ]
Unfortunate and imprudent are two words for the same thing. [ French Proverb ]
I myself had been happy, if I had been unfortunate in time. [ Proverb ]
We are never so happy, or unfortunate, as we think ourselves. [ Proverb ]
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. [ Vauvenargues ]
When one has a good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
It is some relief to the unfortunate to see there are others more miserable. [ Proverb ]
Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate. [ Du Cceur ]
It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage. [ Dacier ]
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [ Ovid ]
He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. [ Pascal ]
At the banquet of life, an unfortunate guest, I one day appeared; now, I am dying. Dying! and none there are to shed a tear over the tomb that awaits me! [ Gilbert ]
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven. [ Pestalozzi ]
There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skillful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. [ Swift ]
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend. [ Saadi ]
Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]
We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]