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.)

“There is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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