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Old age is a shipwreck.
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.
I'm very resourceful. I'd be good in prison. I'd be good in a shipwreck. I'd make a great hostage.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
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.
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
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.
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
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.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.
There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.