Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or disaster:
“Hearing the low sound
of a cloud scattering rain
at midnight
and thinking for an eternity
on his absent young wife,
a traveller heaved a sigh
and with a flood of tears
howled the whole night long.
Now, villagers won’t let him stay
in their place anymore.”
—Amaru (c. seventh century A.D.)
“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.
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