We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

The 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.

Pride 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.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons, to economists and politicians.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions, instead of controlling them, is trying to play the angel.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel any day.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil

It 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.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

I heard an Angel singing, When the day was springing, "Mercy, Pity, Peace, Is the world's release."

If men were angels no government would be necessary.

Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting a little lower ever since.

By that sin fell the angels.

All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

It 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.

It was pride that changed angels into devils, it is humility that makes men as angels.

What 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.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Reputation is what men and women think of us, character is what God and angels know of us.

The 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.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

She was a blessing. She was an angel. She was my baby.

The 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.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Believers look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on

The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said Little creature formed of joy and mirth / Go love without the help of anything on earth.'

What 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.

The 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.

By many stories, And true we learn the angels are all Tories.

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.

As 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.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

The 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.

It 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.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all then closes the case and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up.