Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image ““The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“ships sails in many directions, but it is the same wind responsible to their destinations.” — Yuddandisivasubramanyam Copy Share Image
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ships don't make a journey, waves do... Seas don't make an adventure, storms do...” — Noren Copy Share Image
“The ocean is never afraid of wind rising against it; it creates beautiful waves instead.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Calm seas may be more comfortable, but when there’s no wind, the boat can’t sail forward.” — Bruno LoGreco Copy Share Image
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving—we must sail… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Not the waves, not the storms, but often we ourselves sink our ships!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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