Addison Mizner
Addison Mizner

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Aeschylus
Aeschylus

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Alex Spanos
Alex Spanos

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri

Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

Ali Bongo Ondimba
Ali Bongo Ondimba

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.