Shipwreck Quotations

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.

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.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

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

The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it

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

Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.

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

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