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unfortunate

«The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.»
«The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.»
«When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.»
Author: Haniel Long | Keywords: apathy, unfortunate
«Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping-or attaches the name of St. Patrick to the day of the year that bartenders fear most.»
«Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.»
Author: Jon Anderson | About: Christmas | Keywords: frenzy, last-minute, unfortunate
«To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing stones on one fallen into a well»
«The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.»
«Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.»
«The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life»
«There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their week's exercise»

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