Steering Winds

Famous quotes containing the words steering and/or winds:

    The boat is made of dry reeds, and a monkey is steering it.
    Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

    I call to mind the navy great
    That the Greeks brought to Troye town,
    And how the boistous winds did beat
    Their ships, and rent their sails adown;
    Till Agamemnon’s daughter’s blood
    Appeased the gods that them withstood.
    Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)