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Wind Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
- But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it…
- What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
- These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain…
- Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A…
- ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch…
- Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
- Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although…
- I am a feather for each wind that blows
- What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this…
- You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
- Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.
- Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring…
- When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln…
- Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove…
- I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
- All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game.…
- If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,…
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and…
- Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
- True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance…
- If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
- Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed…
More Wind Quotes
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very… — George Matthew Adams
- It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. — Dave Barry
- Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where… — Joe Barton
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
- If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. — Yogi Berra
- The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the… — Henry Beston
- I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind… — Jello Biafra
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. — Aesop