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Wrecks Quotes

Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.

"What Tyler Oakley Taught Me About Being a ‘Man’" by Jackson Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2014.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

"Fictional character: Holly Golightly". Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Girl, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself!

"Glenn Beck", transcripts.cnn.com. February 8, 2007.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.61