John Dryden Quotes

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Misfortune was my god.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Bad things happen sometimes.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

I've had plenty of bad breaks you know.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

It's been a year of many more downs than ups.

Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.