How silent are the winds! [ Barry Cornwall ]
Books wind into the heart. [ Hazlitt ]
The winds are out of breath. [ Dryden ]
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]
The winds with wonder whist.
Smoothly the waters kisst. [ Milton ]
The wind blows not always west. [ Proverb ]
Never does a wilder song
Steal the breezy lyre along,
When the wind in odors dying,
Wooes it with enamored sighing. [ Moore ]
A boy's will is the wind's will. [ Longfellow ]
To set up a sail to every wind . [ Proverb ]
Fun fast the leaves are dropping
Before that wandering breath. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Wind and weather, do your utmost. [ Proverb ]
Can by their pangs and aches find
All turns and changes of the wind. [ Butler ]
Every one that flatters thee,
Is no friend in misery;
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find. [ Shakespeare ]
A gentle wind of western birth,
From some far summer sea,
Wakes daisies in the wintry earth. [ George MacDonald ]
Do not the bright June roses blow
To meet thy kiss at morning hours. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Is not thy home among the flowers? [ William Cullen Bryant ]
The rain comes when the wind calls. [ Emerson ]
The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave. [ Bailey ]
An idle head is a box for the wind. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The tall oak, towering to the skies,
The fury of the wind defies,
From age to age, in virtue strong.
Inured to stand, and suffer wrong. [ Montgomery ]
While rocking winds are piping loud. [ Milton ]
The hushed winds their Sabbath keep. [ William Cullen [Bryant ]
When the gust hath blown his fill,
Ending on the rustling leaves,
With minute drops from off the eaves. [ Milton ]
She can laugh and cry both in a wind. [ Proverb ]
What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]
Except wind stands as it never stood
It is an ill wind turns none to good. [ Thomas Tusser ]
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will.
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. [ Scott ]
The wind in one's face makes one wise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hoist your sail when the wind is fair. [ Proverb ]
The wind breath'd soft a lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene! [ Scott ]
As the wind blows, seek your shelter . [ Proverb ]
To wind the mighty secrets of the past.
And turn the key of time. [ Henry Kirk White ]
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. [ William Shakespeare ]
When God will, no wind but brings rain. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. [ Sterne ]
Through perils both of wind and limb.
Through thick and thin she follow'd him. [ Butler ]
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. [ Butler ]
I am a feather for each wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like a miller, he can set to every wind. [ Proverb ]
As if the wind, not she, did walk,
Nor pressed a flower, nor bowed a stalk. [ Ben Jonson ]
I hear the howl of the wind that brings
The long drear storm on its heavy wings. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
The wind keeps not always in one quarter. [ Proverb ]
Words and feathers the wind carries away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I have a tangled skein of it to wind off. [ Proverb ]
Sail, quoth the king, hold saith the wind. [ Proverb ]
As the wind blows, you must set your sail. [ Proverb ]
A melancholy sound is in the air,
A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail
Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night [ William Cullen Bryant ]
The tree that God plants no wind hurts it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
What have I to do with Bradshaws wind-mill? [ Proverb ]
Dashing in big drops on the narrow pane,
And making mournful music for the mind,
While plays his interlude the wizzard wind,
I hear the singing of the frequent rain. [ William H. Burleigh ]
What wind blew you hither. Pistol?
Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. [ William Shakespeare ]
Chance will not do the work -
Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm.
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.
The steersman's part is vigilance.
Blow it or rough or smooth. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind. [ Pope ]
There is strange music in the stirring wind! [ Rev. Wm. L. Bowles ]
Words are but wind, but seeing is believing. [ Proverb ]
Is it possible? Sits the wind in that corner? [ William Shakespeare ]
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind. [ Pope ]
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
Which I respect not. [ Jul. Caes ]
What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]
By land or water the wind is ever in my face. [ Proverb ]
Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. [ Socrates ]
There's not a wind but whispers of thy name,
And not a flower that grows beneath the moon,
But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale
Of thee, my love. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Eternal Spirit of the chainless mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art.
For there thy habitation is the Heart -
The Heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consigned -
To fetters and the damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their Martyrdom,
And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. [ Byron ]
Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird.
Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer,
Kisses the blushing leaf. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Your wind-mill is dwindled into a nut-cracker. [ Proverb ]
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]
All idle talk (so much the wind carries away). [ French Proverb ]
A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The winds of winter wailing through the woods;
The mighty laughter of the vernal floods. [ Abraham Coles ]
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Behold the threaden sails.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. [ William Shakespeare ]
For highest looks have not the highest mind,
Nor haughty words most full of highest thought;
But are like bladders blown up with the wind,
That being pricked evanish into nought. [ Spenser ]
As winds come lightly whispering from the west.
Kissing, not ruffling the blue deep's serene. [ Byron ]
Madame, bear in mind
That princes govern all things - save the wind. [ Victor Hugo ]
Her words but wind, and all her tears but water. [ Spenser ]
He that weighs the wind must have a steady hand. [ Proverb ]
And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]
The wind that blows out candles kindles the fire. [ Proverb ]
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]
O wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? [ Shelley ]
A love-tint flushes the wind-flower's cheek,
Rich melodies gush from the violet's beak.
On the rifts of the rock, the wild columbines grow.
Their heavy honey-cups bending low. [ Sarah Helen Whitman ]
You cannot drive a wind-mill with a pair of bellows. [ Proverb ]
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task. [ Wordsworth ]
It is not the weathercock that changes: it is the wind. [ C. Desmoulins ]
A puff of wind and the praise of the people weigh alike. [ Proverb ]
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the soul with chastenings. [ George Herbert ]
Now cold despair To livid paleness turns the glowing red;
His blood, scarce liquid, creeps within his veins,
Like water which the freezing wind constrains. [ Dryden ]
The wind is not in your debt, though it fills not your sail. [ Proverb ]
He that does good for praise only merits but a puff of wind. [ Proverb ]
The frost performs its secret ministry unhelped by any wind. [ Coleridge ]
I hear the wind among the trees playing celestial symphonies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A little wind kindles a great fire, a great one blows it out. [ Proverb ]
The fortune is insecure that is at the mercy of wind and wave. [ Gutzkow ]
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. [ Hare ]
You may row your heart out, if the wind and tide set against you. [ Proverb ]
When the splitting wind makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks. [ William Shakespeare ]
Take heed of wind that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The sobbing wind is fierce and strong: Its cry is like a human wail. [ Susan Coolidge ]
The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. [ Yogi Berra ]
Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur. [ Horace ]
If you sail with a bad wind, you need to understand tacking about well. [ Proverb ]
To give a reason for fancy, were to weigh the fire and measure the wind. [ Proverb ]
A good pilot and a fair wind are the requisites for a prosperous voyage. [ Demophilus ]
Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. [ Hood ]
And maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind. [ Bible ]
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore. [ C. N. Bovee ]
The moods of love are like the wind; and none knows whence or why they rise. [ Patmore ]
Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge. [ Hannay ]
He that will not sail till he have a full fair wind, will lose many a voyage. [ Proverb ]
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked. [ Voltaire ]
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]
Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]
A balloon sent up to ascertain the direction of the wind; any test of public feeling. [ French ]
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. [ John Selden ]
The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm! [ W. H. Gibson ]
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. [ Bible ]
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn. [ Molinos ]
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]
The fickle mob, how they are driven round by every wind that blows! Woe to him who leans on this reed! [ Friedrich Schiller ]
My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. [ Quarles ]
Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire. [ La Roche ]
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [ Dante ]
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. [ George MacDonald ]
There are three things a wise man will not trust - the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. [ Southey ]
Absence diminishes weak passions and augments great ones; as the wind extinguishes tapers,but increases a conflagration. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. (This is probably the origin of God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In navigation, it is the business of the master of a vessel to see that no wind be lost, misemployed, or taken from the ship. [ Lord Bacon ]
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly and their rage is lost. [ Dryden ]
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go. [ Mme. du Chatelet ]
Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air, and more inconstant than the wind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Is it not strange, the way in which good angels seem to take up the thread of our dropped hopes and endeavors, and wind them up for us, we know not how, till it is all done? [ Miss Muloch ]
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. [ Bishop Hall ]
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. [ Lowell ]
When the wandering demon of Drunkenness finds a ship adrift - no steady wind in its sails, no thoughtful pilot directing its course - he steps on board, takes the helm and steers straight for the maelstrom. [ Holmes ]
It is the passions which do and undo everything; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. [ Fontenelle ]
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]
The common cause of waves is the friction of the wind upon the surface of the water; little ridges or elevations first appear, which by continuance of the force gradually increase until they become the rolling mountains seen where the wind sweeps over a great extent of water. [ F. Marryatt ]
A phlegmatic insensibility is as different from patience as a pool from a harbor; into the one, indolence naturally sinks us; but if we arrive at the other, it is by encountering many an adverse wind and rough wave, with a more skillful pilot at the helm than self, and a company under better command than the passions. [ L. W. Dilwyn ]
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]
As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran?
[ Rev. Dr. Donne ]