Wind Quotes

3336 quotes by 2143 authors

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White
What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that… — June Hunt
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,… — Satish Kumar
The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so… — H. L. Mencken
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get… — Jack Handey
Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But… — Robert Greene
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — John Davy
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him… — Henry David Thoreau
Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be… — Martin Luther
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in… — Alistair Cooke
When I'm in a zone, I don't think about the shot or the wind or the distance or the gallery or anything; I just pull… — Mark Calcavecchia
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have… — Carl Sagan
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they… — John Bunyan
A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,… — William Wordsworth
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. — William Golding
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the… — Joshua Slocum
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci

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