Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love must have wings to fly away from love, and to fly back again.
Edwin A. Robinson

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.
Sextus Propertius

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
Francois Mauriac

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
O. J. Simpson

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.
Chuck Yeager

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

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

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph Joubert

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Miguel de Cervantes

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
George Eliot

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John Keats

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas Kempis

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.
William E. Geist

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.
Lisa Guerrero

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Rumi