Wind Quotes

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
John Petit-Senn

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
John Wycliffe

Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Thomas Hood

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop

They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.
Arthur Harris

The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
Pablo Picasso

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
Abraham Cahan

Who am I to blow against the wind?
Paul Simon

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man’s pleasure.
Robert Southwell

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
James Stephens

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
David Friedman

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.
Yoshida Kenko

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter Scott

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Jacqueline Cochran

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
Evelyn Ashford

I think daily that the country’s future is being thrown to the wind.
Edwidge Danticat

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
Edward Fitzgerald

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I’m not going to plan.
Matthew McGrory

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I used to pull rank and wait until the wind was blowing out.
Joe Cronin

I’ve seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Rachel Field

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne

It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries.
John Masefield

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William James

An ill wind that bloweth no man good– The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood

My boy, one small breeze doesn’t make a wind storm.
John McGraw

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley

But certain winds will make men’s temper bad.
George Eliot

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It’s always changing.
Don Van Vliet

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
David Hare

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Homer

The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.
Joanna Baillie