They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Life can be a shipwreck but we must always remember to sing in the life boats — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But here, two thousand miles from home, there was a real shipwreck, a real hope. A choice big enough to change our… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“Det va bra dokker kom. Æ satt just her og tænkte på om ho Hilvarda huska på å læmpe ut monsen før… — Arthur Arntzen Copy Share Image
Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say… Some of those who… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“By the time she was fifteen, the age she was the day of the shipwreck, opinions by the dozen landed in each… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that… — Proclus Copy Share Image
One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship’s… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the… — Charles Taze Russell Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“A good swimmer is one who knows how to swim through the river of life without drowning.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
