George MacDonald Quotes

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

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.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

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

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.

Misfortunes never come singly.

...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.