The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

If there had been a tornado or something that took the town, it would've been the same song.

Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.