He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

“When calamities are imminent, the judgement is first destroyed!”

— Anonymous

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

— Ernest Bramah

Mama Nature is kinda good, but does spank he who plays tricks on her!

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“ Calamities are unavoidable, in love and travel. All it takes to make it to the end of the road are some good Survival Tips. ”

— Vivian Swift

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

— Suzanne Curchod

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s…

— Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible.…

— Sun Tzu

“In Book VIII of the Odyssey we read that the gods weave misfortunes into the pattern of events to make a song for future…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation”

— Sun Tzu

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits…

— Anonymous

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating…

— Henry Miller