Calamity

Famous quotes containing the word calamity:

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

“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)