We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LucretiusStart using your wings; they need some exercise.
Paulo CoelhoEverything 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.
VoltairePhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace ThackerayA woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel any day.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWe 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 ByronThen 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 BlakeBy 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 SchweitzerIt 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 ShakespeareCertain 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.
Joseph AddisonDon't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert LawrenceIt is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor HugoShe was a blessing. She was an angel. She was my baby.
James AllenThe 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 GrahamThe Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said Little creature formed of joy and mirth / Go love without the help of anything on earth.'
William BlakeThe 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 BlakeOur 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.
Oliver Wendell HolmesSwedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb: his writings are the linen clothes folded up.
William Blake