14 Quotes on Calamity

• 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.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

  Author: Virgil

• Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

  Author: Virgil

• Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  Author: John Spalding

• Calamity is the test of integrity.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

  Author: Philip Massinger

• These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

  Author: Frederick Leboyer

• When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  Author: Oliver Holmes

• A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

  Author: Hesiod

• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

  Author: William Davenant

• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  Author: Charles Colton

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