Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Shipwreck

A general shipwreck is a consolation to all.Latin.

A wreck on a shore is a beacon at sea.Dutch.

After shipwrecks there is a harbor.Latin.

All wrecks come to the shore; the shore never goes to the wreck.French.

He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice.Publius Syrus.

He that has been shipwrecked shudders at still water.Ovid.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.

Let another’s shipwreck be your sea mark.

No one can complain of the sea who twice suffers shipwreck.German.

Shipwrecked in luxury and lost in ease.Prior.

Show mercy to those that are shipwrecked.Phocylides 540 years before Christ.

To look at a shipwreck from the shore.Latin.