For a few years now I have sought the source of a quote that I can only paraphrase:
Nothing happens that is so good that someone doesn’t suffer or so bad that someone doesn’t benefit.
Ring any bells?
More of a proverb than a quotation, but It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. Variations were apparently well known sayings by the middle of the 16th century. cite 1, cite 2.
I knew this question sounded familiar. You asked the same question, and I gave the same answer, about a year ago. Are we caught in a time warp?
Oops! Perhaps I am stuck in a time warp! Or maybe it’s a seasonal thing. At any rate… thank you for your attempt at a answer but that’s not the specific quote I am looking for.
This is different from the ones posted above, because it mentions something good leading to something bad as well.
It sounds like an English translation of Cicero, doesn’t it? Or something an Englishman educated in the classics would say. Except it would be “… nor so bad …”.
Hmmm… your link led to nowhere for me!
try this.
Thanks, Cub Mistress,
While not the exact quote I was looking for the gist is the same. I’d still love to discover the name (along with the precise wording) that I heard some years back. I do recall that I recognized the name of the person who uttered the words.
Another tangent, perhaps:
“There’s so much good in the worst of us
and so much bad in the best of us
It hardly behooves any of us
to go talking down the rest of us.”
-source unknown