Behinds Quote by Joseph Conrad

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most…

— Joseph Conrad

“There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

— James Russell Lowell

We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wind is the heart of the wave, the spoon of the sea and the angry bull of the ships. Without wind, there is no…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole…

— Akhenaton

The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.

— Chris Bonington

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

— Ouida

Who am I to blow against the wind?

— Paul Simon

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

— Seneca the Younger

“It has often been remarked of the Scottish character, that the stubbornness with which it is moulded shows most to advantage in adversity, when…

— Walter Scott

The wind in ones face makes one wise.

— George Herbert