On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

— William Shakespeare

“The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word…

— Jeanette Winterson

“To follow Beauty even when she shall lead you to the verge of the precipice; and though she is winged and you are wingless,…

— Kahlil Gibran

Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

— Henry David Thoreau

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

— Li-Young Lee

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

— Caleb Cushing

“To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in…

— Marcel Proust

“When evil strives to overcome good, when firepower is greater than the spoken word, then death rides a winged horse.”

— British Army Parachute Regiment

“A one-winged bird does not fly south for the winter. It flies south, west, north, and east, over and over. That’s how I feel…

— Jarod Kintz

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

— Douglas William Jerrold

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

— Anonymous

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

— Victor Hugo

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged…

— Richard Reeves