Wind Quotes - page 9

I shall stay no longer than to wish him a rainy day to read this... discourse and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing. (Izaak Walton)

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

Hans Christian Andersen

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that's false Before you trust in critics.

Lord Byron

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

Diogenes Laërtius

You're all just pissin' in the wind, You don't know it but you are.

Neil Young

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Jim Rohn

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

William Shakespeare

You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.

William Shakespeare

My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,
East wind and frost are safely gone;
With zephyr mild and balmy rain
The summer comes serenely on;
Earth, air, and sun and skies combine
To promise all that's kind and fair:
But thou, O human heart of mine,
Be still, contain thyself, and bear. (Arthur Hugh Clough)

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

Arthur Symons

We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Ogden Nash

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Elizabeth I of England

Human pride is not worthwhile there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here Warm southern wind, blow softly here Green sod above, lie light, lie light Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.

Mark Twain

Take a straw and throw it up into the air - you may see by that which way the wind is.

John Selden

The earth with yellow pears And overgrown with roses wild Upon the pond is bent, And swans divine, With kisses drunk You drop your heads In the sublimely sobering water. But where, with winter come, am I To find, alas, the floweres, and where The sunshine And the shadow of the world? Cold the walls stand And the wordless, in the wind The weathercocks are rattling.

Friedrich Hölderlin

Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.

Frank Harris

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

E. F. Schumacher

Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. (Walter Scott)

The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

John Milton

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away;-.

Emily Brontë

Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

Arthur Miller

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

Pearl S. Buck

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