Disaster Occurs

Famous quotes containing the words disaster and/or occurs:

    When wine is spilled with accident, death and disaster hasten.
    —Joseph O’Donnell. Clifford Sanforth. Ah Ling, Murder by Television, after he accidentally spills wine on Mrs. Houghland (1935)

    My old Father used to have a saying that “If you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter”; and it occurs to me, that if the bargain you have just closed [marriage] can possibly be called a bad one, it is certainly the most pleasant one for applying that maxim to, which my fancy can, by any effort, picture.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)