Famous quotes containing the word harbinger:
“Virtue is the root of good fortune, and evil the harbinger of calamity.”
—Chinese proverb.
“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)