Any MISFORTUNE that HAPPENS to another person is funny. If it happens to someone ELSE and not me, it's very funny.

A YOUNG musician PLAYS scales in his ROOM and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other HAND, SOMETIMES has the misfortune of getting into print.

It is a MISFORTUNE that necessity has induced men to accord greater LICENSE to this formidable engine, in order to obtain LIBERTY, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the PRESS, like FIRE, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I was a LAWYER for 10 YEARS, and SEVERAL of my clients had the misfortune, through no FAULT of my own, of going to prison. I VISITED them occasionally.

For young PEOPLE in the U.K. who find themselves without anywhere to live - perhaps they have left the family home after a relationship breakdown, or to escape abuse, or have left CARE - it is FAR too easy to become trapped in a chain of MISFORTUNE, with little HELP from the state.

For all of my FORTUNE, there are MANY with MISFORTUNE that NEED a HAND.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the MISFORTUNE to COME ALONG in the twentieth CENTURY, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no SINCERITY in them.

The death of my husband, COMING immediately after the GENERAL knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was FELT by the PUBLIC, and especially by the SCIENTIFIC circles, to be a national misfortune.

I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby UNION call me up and SAY, 'We need you.' There is an INCREDIBLY TALENTED Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so MAYBE some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.