CALAMITY

Related Subjects: Accident, Adversity, Misfortune

1. Calamity is man's true touchstone.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, The Triumph of Honor
   

2. Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.—SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT
   

3. He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.—DEFOE, Robinson Crusoe
   

4. When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered, is how much has been escaped.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

5. Half a calamity is better than a whole one.—LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
   

6. Do they not seek occasion of new quarrels
   On my refusal to distress me more,
   Or make a game of my calamities?—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
   

7. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.—B. PORTEUS
   

8. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

9. Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

10. What time to tardy consummation brings,
    Calamity, like to a frosty night
    That ripeneth the grain, completes at once.—SIR HENRY TAYLOR, Philip von Artevelde
    

11. What region of earth is not full of our calamities?—VERGIL, Aeneid