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| Att göra det rätta är ingen garanti mot oturen. | William McFee (1881-1966) |
| Det är illa att drunkna på torra land | Norsk Ordtak |
| Enbart pengar skapar inte lycka, men tack vare dem kan man ändå vara olycklig på ett angenämt sätt. | Jean Marais |
| I grund och botten är varje olycka bara så tung som man känner den. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Inget är mer komiskt än olyckan - givetvis andras. | Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) |
| Min olycka är att jag varit i fel bar eller fel säng vid fel tidpunkt,d v s de flesta dagar mellan middag å midnatt | Jeffrey Bernard (1932-1997) |
| Motgångar prövar vännen, och avslöjar fienden. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| När olyckan är ute, är det bäst att vara inne | Norsk Ordtak |
| När olyckan är ute, är det bäst att vara inne. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Olycka är att inte veta vad man vill ha men göra allt för att få det. | Don Herold (1889-1966) |
| Olyckan kommer ofta obedd. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Olyckan är nästan alltid ett tecken på en falsk tolkning av livet. | Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) |
| Om alla våra misslyckanden lades i en gemensam hög, ur vilken alla måste ta en lika stor del, skulle de flesta nöja sig med att bara ta sina egna och gå. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Skär man sig i ett finger är det illa, men skär man sig i två är det värre. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Der findes to slags ulykker: Uheld som rammer en selv, og held som rammer andre. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. | Lydia M. Child |
| Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. | Walt Alston |
| Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| 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. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well | German Proverb |
| Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition | French Proverb |
| The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Misfortune does not always wait on vice; nor is success the constant guest of virtue | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune | Danish Proverb |
| I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences. | Walt Alston |
| Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. | William McFee (1881-1966) |