"He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light."
Arabian Proverb

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster."
Sun Tzu

"When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself."
Mark Twain

"Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster."
Anne Wilson Schaef

"Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Build me straight, O worthy Master! / Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, / That shall laugh at all disaster, / And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death."
Joseph Conrad

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
Simon Wiesenthal

"The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it."
Homer

"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."
Anonymous

"Whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished."
The Bible