Wind Compass Rose

Famous quotes containing the words wind, compass and/or rose:

    The Wind begun to rock the Grass
    With threatening Tunes and low—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved—sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest—so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
    Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)