#shipwreck

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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.


Thomas More


#bay #channel #danger #enter #great

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)


Alexandre Dumas


#shipwreck #life

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.


Dylan Thomas


#love #naughty #poem #sex #shipwreck

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.


Ovid


#even #experienced #man #sea #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.


Charles Caleb Colton


#better #danger #encounters #hurricane #lee

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.


Andy Gibb


#bear #could #desert #desert island #her

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.


Ben Hecht


#onto #prejudice #raft #safety #shipwrecked

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.


Francis Bacon


#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

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.


Philip Dunne


#come #disaster #full #grown-up #i

Old age is a shipwreck.


Charles de Gaulle


#old #old age #shipwreck