
“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“An ill wind that blows no man to good.”
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
“fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows”
“The wind is blowing, adore the wind.”
Symbol 8
The Symbols
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
“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.
“When the wind blows, the grass bends.”
Source: The Analects
“When the stormy winds do blow.”
Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow", Thomas Campbell, Ye Mariners of England.
“The wind of change is blowing through this continent”
"Mr Macmillan's appeal to South Africans", The Times, 4 February 1960, p. 15.
Speech to the South African Parliament, 3 February 1960.
1960s
Context: The most striking of all the impressions I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of this African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact.
“And who am I to blow against the wind?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares