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.
~George Elliot
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
~Voltaire
I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.
~Mae West
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
~William Blake
An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
~St. Thomas Aquinas
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.
~John Keats
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
~G.K. Chesterton
If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophy, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
These things I warmly wish for you Someone to love, some work to do, A bit o’ sun, a bit o’ cheer, And a guardian angel always near.
~Irish Blessings
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.
~Lord Byron
I wear a coat of angels’ breath and warm myself with His love.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
Better the devil you know than the angel you don’t.
~Hama Tuma
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, ‘Grow, grow.’
~The Talmud
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
~Albert Schweitzer
We’re all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.
~Amethyst Snow-Rivers
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.
~Eileen Elias Freeman
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 alone.
~William Blake
The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.
~Peter Wilson
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.
~Astrid Alauda
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~James Allen
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
~Jean Paul Richter
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
~G.K. Chesterton
Angels have no philosophy but love.
~Adeline Cullen Ray
While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls.
~Author Unknown
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
~Maria Callas
I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
~Jean Cocteau
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence.
~Astrid Alauda