We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LucretiusMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas CarlyleIn heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard ShawStart using your wings; they need some exercise.
Paulo CoelhoThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand, the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone.
George EliotPride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander PopeEverything is possible, from angels to demons, to economists and politicians.
Paulo CoelhoAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayWe cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint AugustineThough women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil
Lord ByronIt is not known precisely where angels dwell, whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
VoltaireThen cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William BlakeI heard an Angel singing, When the day was springing, "Mercy, Pity, Peace, Is the world's release."
William BlakeIf men were angels no government would be necessary.
James MadisonMan was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting a little lower ever since.
Josh BillingsBy that sin fell the angels.
William ShakespeareAll that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham LincolnA man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Albert SchweitzerDeath makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.
Jim MorrisonWe shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton ChekhovIt is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
BuddhaIt was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint AugustineWhat a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god.
William ShakespeareReputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas PaineThe savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric HofferI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
MichelangeloDon't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert LawrenceFools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander PopeIt is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor HugoMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeThe desire for power in excess caused angels to fall, the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall, but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it.
Francis BaconGod's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy GrahamBelievers look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy GrahamWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James MadisonThe reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
William BlakeBy many stories, And true we learn the angels are all Tories.
Lord ByronFor the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
Lord ByronAs I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
William BlakeO' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William ShakespeareThe Angels were all singing out of tune and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
Lord ByronIt is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.
William BlakeSwedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up.
William Blake