Khalil Gibran Quotes, Eagles Quotes, Wings Quotes

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.

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OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar.' And what does IT live on?' Weak tea with cream in it.' A new difficulty came into Alice's head. `Supposing it couldn't find any?' she suggested. Then it would die, of course.' But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully. It always happens,' said the Gnat.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Butterfly Quotes , Wings Quotes

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

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Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

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Frienship is eros...without wings

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