the worst happens when you least expect it
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
I'll tickle his catastrophe.
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.
Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.