Much has been said and written about calamity.These are some of the quotes and sayings that I like
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
~William Davenant
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~Ambrose Bierce
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
~John Lancaster Spalding
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
~Samuel Johnson
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
~Bill Watterson
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
~Henry Mackenzie
Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
~ Seneca
He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.
~Beilby Porteus
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
~Bible
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
~Publilius Syrus
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
~Virgil
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
~Henry MacKenzie
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
~Frederick Leboyer
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
~Lawrence of Arabia
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer
~Aeschylus
Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
~Seneca
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
~Philip Massinger
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
~William Shakespeare
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
~Mark Twain
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
~Arabian Proverb
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
~Publilius Syrus
Public calamity is a mighty leveler.
~Edmund Burke
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
~John Lancaster Spalding
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
~Unknown
When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.
~Grover Cleveland
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
~Hesiod
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
~William Davenant
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
~Virgil
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~Sydney Smith
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
~Philip Massinger
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~Aeschylus
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
~Robert Bly
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
~Publilius Syrus
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
~Bill Watterson
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~Sun Tzu
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
~Bishop Porteous
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