“Half a calamity is better than a whole one”
Lawrence of Arabia
“The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for”
Mark Twain
“Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.”
Publilius Syrus
“With the tsunami, I think if one compared relatively the damage here is much more, the magnitude of the calamity is much more,”
Pervez Musharraf
“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
Virgil
“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters”
Daniel Defoe
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
