Top 40 Quotes About Misfortunes Of Others
#1. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#2. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
#3. The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.
Saadi
#4. Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.
Ovid
#5. Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift ... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries
#7. Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#8. We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus
#10. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?
Martha Hall Kelly
#12. Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
Oscar Wilde
#13. For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.
Oliver Goldsmith
#15. Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#16. Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
Thomas More
#17. Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.
Mignon G. Eberhart
#18. It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.
Danika Stone
#19. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson
#20. Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
Publilius Syrus
#21. The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
#23. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
#24. It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#25. It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis De Sade
#26. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
Scott Adams
#27. Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis De Sade
#28. We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Deepak Chopra
#29. I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
Nikki Gil
#30. My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.
Jennifer Niven
#31. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
#32. Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda
Daisaku Ikeda
#33. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
#34. The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural paradox we all grapple with. There's the rampant litigiousness of our society, and the desire to blame others for our misfortunes.
Heidi Julavits
#35. One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Alexander Smith
#36. We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.
B.C. Forbes
#38. Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
Jackie Stewart
#39. We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.
Polybius
#40. 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
