I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.
I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.