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Sails Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.
Arthur Ashe

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

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

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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Hermann von Helmholtz

Wisdom sails with wind and time.
John Florio

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