Sails Quotes

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

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

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

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.