adversity Quotes

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.