Ill wind that blows nobody any good

The complete expression is it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, which is another way of saying that if a wind does not benefit anyone, then it must be bad. It first appears in John Heywood Proverbs (1546) as, “An ill wind that bloweth no man to good” indicating it was already an old saying in his day. Thomas Tusser (c.1524-1580) also quotes, “It is an ill wind turns none to good” in one of his poems. Shakespeare later uses it in Henry IV Part II, Act V, Scene III, “The ill wind which blows no man to good,” and again in Henry VI Part III, Act II, Scene V, “Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.”