Calamity

Famous quotes containing the word calamity:

“A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)