“It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.”

— William McFee

Book I: The Suburb, Ch. X
Casuals of the Sea (1916)

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William McFee 19

American writer 1881–1966

Kenneth Patchen (1911–1972) American writer and poet

“The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.”

Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) 22nd and 24th president of the United States

Quoted in The American Mercury (1961), in a letter from Cleveland to his law partner, Wilson S. Bissell, February 15th, 1894. https://books.google.com/books?id=BIsqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+present+danger%22+cleveland+bissell&dq=%22The+present+danger%22+cleveland+bissell&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj68-CIhenSAhXpCMAKHdsXCKQQ6AEIHjAB.

“Fear not the thunder, little one.
It's weather, simply weather;
It's friendly giants full of fun
Clapping their hands together.”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

“No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!”

George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician

The Pilot that weathered the Storm.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.”
Cogito, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.

Plautus Truculentus

Truculentus, Act IV, sc. iv, line 15.
Variant translation: Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only. (translator unknown)
Truculentus