Shipwreck Quotes
Voyaging begins when one burns one's boats, adventures begin with a shipwreck.
Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.254, Bloomsbury Publishing
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1871). “Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem”, p.8
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.
Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.151
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
"Gellius". 17. 14,
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 144, 1856.