Winged Quotes

111 quotes by 93 authors

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder.… — Aberjhani
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough. — Anais Nin
Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts. — Laurel Lea
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. — Henry Ward Beecher
Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. — Horace
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold
for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself,… — Plato
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of… — William Cowper
As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill… — Edwin Way Teale
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn… — John Fletcher
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. — Paul Klee
But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible… — Rachel Carson
The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. — Helen Keller
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. — Andrew Marvell
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. — Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. — William Shakespeare

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