Shipwreck Quotes

Shipwreck Quote of the day

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

Old age is a shipwreck.

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

Reserve some hours daily to examine yourself and fortune; for if you embark yourself in perpetual conversation or recreation, you will certainly shipwreck your mind and fortune.

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipw

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.

Dreaming of another time, Dreaming of clasping your hands so tight, Dreaming of another time, Dreaming of the shipwreck that is in my heart would end