Jacob Zuma Quotes

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

As ill-luck would have it.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

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

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

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

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

God sends a curst cow short horns.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

That's bad luck: three on a midget. From "At The Circus