Top Sails Quotes
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn
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
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
Dolly Parton 
John Florio 
Hermann von Helmholtz 
Jimmy Dean 
William Golding 
William Osler 
Euripides All Sails Quotes
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn 
58% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
54% of people like this quote
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
53% of people like this quote
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer
51% of people like this quote
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
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If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
J. Enoch Powell
50% of people like this quote