Sails Quotes
Adjusting course when the wind won't cooperate.
These sails quotes turn sailing into a metaphor for attitude, most famously contrasting the pessimist who complains about the wind with the realist who simply adjusts the sails. A more technical line explains how sailing's effect depends on arranging sails to the wind's Movement.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Emotion Quotes
One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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One quote pairs wisdom itself with sailing, noting it moves with both wind and time, while another wryly points out there's no trophy for the team that sails most. Explore related themes in Freedom quotes.
