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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you. -- Phaedrus
Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies. -- Tony Kushner
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. -- Stephen Hawking
A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope. -- Chris Pine
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. -- W. Somerset Maugham
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. -- Knut Hamsun
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. -- Emil Cioran
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. -- Henry Rollins
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! -- William Blake
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. -- Alice Morse Earle
Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. -- Toby Young
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life. -- John Biddle
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. -- Rowan Williams
In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right. -- Paul Elmer More
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. -- Pope John Paul II
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. -- Eamon de Valera
It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody. -- Jane Mayer
Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you. -- John Muir
the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation -- Sun Tzu
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race. -- Gore Vidal
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war. -- Alexander H. Stephens
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms. -- Gautama Buddha
Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision. -- Helen Keller
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind. -- Zhuangzi
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. -- Pattiann Rogers
Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us. -- Jacques de Molay
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children. -- John Milton
The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. -- Euripides
The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers. -- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. -- James Carlos Blake
If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. -- Jane Austen
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall. -- William Shakespeare
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. -- W.S. Gilbert
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. -- Frank Herbert
Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. -- Margaret Widdemer
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you. -- Thomas McGuane
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. -- Pythagoras
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me! -- Plutarch
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. -- Walter Raleigh
To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says. -- Slavenka Drakulic
I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow. -- Faith Baldwin
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. -- Deepak Chopra
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience. -- Andrew Lang
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. -- Emil Cioran
We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments. -- Joseph Addison
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. -- Walter Savage Landor
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. -- Saint Francis de Sales
It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. -- Joseph Addison
Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall. -- John Ashbery
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people -- Gore Vidal
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands. -- Homer
Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. -- Paul Hawken
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world. -- Helen Keller
Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. -- Robert Breault
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again. -- James Fenton
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must pass thee by. -- Denver Moore
That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ? -- Thomas a Kempis
I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them. -- Jeanne DuPrau
When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come. -- Ovid
Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,. -- Charlie Crist
The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us. -- John Calvin
We cannot say this or that trouble will not befall, yet we may, by the help of the Spirit, say, Nothing that does befall will make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian. -- Richard Sibbes
There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong. -- Robert Gardner
We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.] -- William Melmoth

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