Definition of Calamity

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Definition of Calamity
	Calamity Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery. Related Definitions: Any, Applied, Cause, Communities, Distress, Either, Extensive, Evil, Generally, Great, Misery, Misfortune, Of, Or, Produce, State, Time, To, Which

Calamity Quotations

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Sun Tzu

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Aeschylus

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson

Calamity Translations

calamity in Dutch is plaag
calamity in French is plaie
calamity in Hungarian is balsors
calamity in Latin is calamitas, lues
calamity in Norwegian is katastrofe
calamity in Swedish is olycka

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