11 Quotes on Shipwreck
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Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Author:
Josef Skvorecky
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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.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Author:
Ovid
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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.
Author:
Thomas More
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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Author:
Guy Maupassant
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Author:
Gotthold Lessing
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Old age is a shipwreck.
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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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.
Author:
Charles Colton
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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.
Author:
Willa Cather
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Author:
Jean Anouilh
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