Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
“fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows”
“You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues
“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
Symbol 8
The Symbols
“If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”
As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.
Context: From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.
“Is ill-language a justification for blows?”
Case of Hugh Reason and another (1722), 16 How. St. Tr. 44; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147.
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
A Description of the Properties of Wind, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
