Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.”
Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
“The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls,
the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.”
Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator,
Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves.
II, i, 43–4.
Elegies
Source: The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005), p.81
“It is better to give away the wool than the sheep.”
Dell'Honore, p. 313.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 294.
“SMALL SONG
The reeds give way to the wind
and give the wind away”
The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)
“Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind”
Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies
1940s, To Every Briton (1940)
Context: May God give power to every word of mine. In his name I began to write this, and in His name I close it. May your statesman have the wisdom and courage to respond to my appeal. I am telling His Excellency the Viceroy that my services are at the disposal of His Majesty’s Government, should they consider them of any practical use in advancing the object of my appeal.
“The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395
