A Quote by Publilius Syrus

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

Publilius Syrus

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Carry Hands Plough Sea Winds

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Thomas Davis

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

John Milton

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

Xenophanes

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

Chris Murray

The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.

Margaret Fuller

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!

James Joyce

the mighty main sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

Anaximenes of Miletus

Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

Ben Jonson

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.

Cynthia Voigt

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

John Climacus

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.