Passion Quote by Proverb

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible…

— Voltaire

We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is…

— Pietro Metastasio

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you…

— Anonymous

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

— Khalil Gibran

'You're reason and your passion are the rudder.. and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you can but toss and…

— Anonymous

“You're reason and your passion are the rudder.. and the sails of your soul. If either be broken, you will drift or be held…

— Kahlil Gibran

Our passions are ourselves.

— Anatole France

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

— Isaac Watts

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

— Edmund Waller

“Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage. They are the property of youth, and anyone who expects to feel their thrill throughout his…

— Lermontov, Mikhail

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee