Top Calamity Quotes
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Richard Curtis
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu
Virgil 
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Andrew Coyle Bradley 
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith 
60% of people like this quote
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
59% of people like this quote
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Richard Curtis
59% of people like this quote
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu
57% of people like this quote
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus
56% of people like this quote
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
55% of people like this quote
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
52% of people like this quote
Popular Calamity Authors
Samuel JohnsonBenjamin Disraeli AeschylusCharles Caleb ColtonOliver Wendell HolmesJoseph AddisonSamuel Richardson VirgilPublilius SyrusSun Tzu HesiodBill WattersonOliver Goldsmith
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