Unfortunate Quotes

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. (Democritus)
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman. View quote
Karl Kraus
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. View quote
Arthur Balfour
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! View quote
Bertolt Brecht
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. View quote
Emma Thompson
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched. (Norman Mailer)
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution. View quote
Anton Chekhov
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day. View quote
David Eddings
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school. View quote
Colin Mochrie
Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. View quote
Francis Crick
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I would say that it was 'poetry' which distinguishes the cubist paintings which Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting which those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically. View quote
Georges Braque
I find above all that the expression, "atonal music," is most unfortunate - it is on a par with calling flying "the art of not falling," or swimming "the art of not drowning." View quote
Arnold Schoenberg