donderdag 11 april 2013

Proverbs internet top 1000


A bad cause requires many words.
German Proverb

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Arab Proverb

A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
English Proverb

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.
Persian Proverb

A cat has nine lives.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
German Proverb

A close friend can become a close enemy.
Ethiopian Proverb

A closed mouth catches no flies.
Italian Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
Chinese Proverb

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
Gaelic Proverb

A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master.
Russian Proverb

A drink precedes a story.
Irish Proverb

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.
Persian Proverb

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

A forest is in an acorn.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

A friend in need is a friend indeed
English Proverb

A friend's eye is a good mirror.
Irish Proverb

A good denial, the best point in law.
Irish Proverb

A good husband is healthy and absent.
Japanese Proverb

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

A healthy man is a successful man.
French Proverb

A hedge between keeps friendship green.
French Proverb

A hen is heavy when carried far.
Irish Proverb

A hound's food is in its legs.
Irish Proverb

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.
Portuguese Proverb

A hungry man is an angry man.
English Proverb

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
French Proverb

A little too late, is much too late.
German Proverb

A loan though old is not gift.
Hungarian Proverb

A lock is better than suspicion.
Irish Proverb

A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.
Turkish Proverb

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.
Yiddish Proverb

A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish Proverb

A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.
Haitian Proverb

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
Irish Proverb

A penny for your thoughts.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

A penny saved is a penny gained.
Scottish Proverb

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
English Proverb

A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.
Hungarian Proverb

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
Chinese proverb

A silent mouth is melodious.
Irish Proverb

A single Russian hair outweighs half a Pole.
Traditional Russian Saying

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible - Proverbs 15:1.

A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Welsh Proverb

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.
Yiddish Proverb

A teacher is better than two books.
German Proverb

A thief believes everybody steals.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Chinese proverb

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
French Proverb

A trade not properly learned is an enemy.
Irish Proverb

A tree falls the way it leans.
Bulgarian Proverb

A white Christmas fills the churchyard.
French Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Yiddish Proverb

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Chinese Proverb

A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the mind of an ass.
German Proverb

A worthy woman is far more precious than jewels, strength and dignity are her clothing.
Bible - Proverbs 31

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.
Danish Proverb

Advice should be viewed from behind.
Swedish Proverb

Advice when most needed is least heeded.
English Proverb

After shaking hands with a Greek, count your fingers.
Albanian Saying

Age is honorable and youth is noble.
Irish Proverb

All is well that ends well.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

All things grow with time, except grief.
Yiddish Proverb

An angry man is not fit to pray.
Yiddish Proverb

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome.
Traditional German Saying

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.
Russian Proverb

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.
Turkish Proverb

An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.
Hungarian Proverb

And old rat is a brave rat.
French Proverb

Anger can be an expensive luxury.
Italian Proverb

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Malabar Proverb

Anger without power is folly.
German Proverb

Appetite comes with eating.
French Proverb

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Bible - Proverbs 26:11

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Bible - Proverbs 23:7

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
Bible - Proverbs 25:25.

As mad as a March hare.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

As proud as a peacock.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France.
Traditional Irish Saying

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, the truest lover may turn into the worst enemy.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

As the big hound is, so will the pup be.
Irish Proverb

As we live, so we learn.
Yiddish Proverb

Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
Irish Proverb

Beggars shouldn't be choosers.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Better give a penny then lend twenty.
Italian Proverb

Better late than never.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Better no doctor at all than three.
Polish Proverb

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
English Proverb

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Better wear out shoes than sheets.
Scottish Proverb

Between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Beware of a silent dog and still water.
German Proverb

Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. (About coffee.)
Turkish proverb

Blood is thicker than water.
English Proverb (17th Century)

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
Irish Proverb

Butter would not melt in her mouth.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Indian Proverb

Children are poor men's riches.
English Proverb

Children should be seen and not heard.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
English Proverb.

Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight.
Italian Proverb

Climb mountains to see lowlands.
Chinese Proverb

Clogs to clogs in three generations.
English Proverb

Clouds gather before a storm.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
Jewish Saying

Curiosity killed the cat.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Japanese Proverb

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Chinese Proverb

Death always comes too early or too late
English Proverb

Death closes all doors.
English Proverb

Death pays all debts.
English Proverb

Did hogs feed here or did Lithuanians have a feast here?
Traditional Polish Saying

Do not be born good or handsome, but be born lucky.
Russian Proverb

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank him for not having given it wings.
Indian Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African proverb

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.
Spanish Proverb

Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.
Hebrew Proverb

Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
Oriental Proverb

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

Don't imitate the fly before you have wings.
French Proverb

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Latin Proverb

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
Persian Proverb

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Bible - Proverbs 17:28

Even a small thorn causes festering.
Irish Proverb

Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Every cloud has a silver lining.
English Proverb

Every dog hath its day.
English Proverb

Every garden may have some weeds.
English Proverb

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish proverb

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Italian Proverb

Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Chinese Proverb

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Ethiopian Proverb

Evil is sooner believed than good.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Eastern Proverb

Fame is a magnifying glass.
English Proverb

Feather by feather the goose can be plucked.
French Proverb

Fine feathers make fine birds.
English Proverb

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb

Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
French Proverb

Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
French Proverb

Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.
English Proverb

Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
French Proverb

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
Tongan Proverb

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Chinese Proverb

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.
Italian Proverb

Give the devil his due.
English Proverb

Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.
French Proverb

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb

God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
German proverb

God heals, and the physician takes the fee.
French Proverb

God help the rich man, let the poor man beg!
Old English Proverb

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves.
Old English Proverb

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
Chinese Proverb

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
French Proverb

Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.
Irish Proverb

Good luck beats early rising.
Irish Proverb

Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
English Proverb

Half a loaf is better than none.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Haste makes waste.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Have a horse of your own and then you may borrow another's.
Welsh Proverb

He is not wise that is not wise for himself.
English Proverb

He lied like an eyewitness.
Russian Insult

He makes his home where the living is best.
Latin Proverb

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
French Proverb (14th century)

He that is rich will not be called a fool.
Spanish Proverb

He that lives on hope will die fasting.
North American Proverb

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Bible - Proverbs 28:20.

He that marries for money will earn it.
American Proverb

He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
English Proverb

He that seeks trouble never misses.
English Proverb (17th century)

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.
Bible - Proverbs 24

He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock.
Scottish Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese proverb

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
Chinese proverb

He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you
Irish Proverb

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Chinese Proverb

He who does not know one thing knows another.
Kenyan Proverb

He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
Irish Proverb

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Arabian Proverb

He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.
German Proverb

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.
German Proverb

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
Spanish Proverb

He who leaps high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.
Chinese Proverb

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
Portuguese Proverb

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.
English Proverb

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
English Proverb

He who would eat in Spain must bring his kitchen along.
Traditional German Saying

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.
Chinese Proverb

Honesty is the best policy.
English Proverb

How many will listen to the truth when you tell them?
Yiddish Proverb

Hygiene is two thirds of health.
Lebanese Proverb

If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
Japanese Proverb

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Italian Proverb

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
Yiddish Proverb

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
Jewish Proverb

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Yiddish Proverb

If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.
Italian Proverb

If two men ride a horse, one must ride behind.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Chinese Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese proverb

If you bow at all bow low.
Chinese Proverb

If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
Irish Proverb

If you love him, don't lend him.
Polish Proverb

If you take big paces you leave big spaces.
Burmese Proverb

If you want to be criticized, marry.
Irish Proverb

If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.
Romanian Proverb

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
Spanish Proverb

In America half an hour is forty minutes.
German Proverb

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
Greek Proverb

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.
French Proverb

Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Irish Proverb

It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.
Irish Proverb

It is a bold mouse that nestles in the cat's ear.
English Proverb

It is a long road that has no turning.
Irish Proverb

It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.
English Proverb (18th century)

It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten.
Kurdish Proverb

It is better to be born a beggar than a fool.
Spanish Proverb

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.
Spanish Proverb

It is better to exist unknown to the law.
Irish Proverb

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. (About laziness)
Indian Proverb

It is hard to pay for bread that has been eaten.
Danish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.
Irish Proverb

It is not enough to run, one must start in time.
French Proverb

It is not fish until it is on the bank.
Irish Proverb

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
Russian proverb

It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
Irish Proverb

It is the good horse that draws its own cart.
Irish Proverb

It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.
Irish Proverb

It takes time to build castles. Rome wan not built in a day.
Irish Proverb

It's an ill wind that blows no good.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.
Irish Proverb

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

Keep a thing for seven years and you'll find a use for it.
Irish Proverb

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
English Proverb

Lack of resource has hanged many a person.
Irish Proverb

Last ship, best ship.
English Proverb

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
Chinese Proverb

Lend your money and lose your friend.
English Proverb

Let sleeping dogs lie.
English Proverb

Let your heart guide your head in evil matters.
Spanish Proverb

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Indian Proverb

Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Spanish Proverb

Like a fish out of water.
Latin Saying

Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
Bible - Proverbs 26:7

Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
Irish Proverb

Little pitchers have big ears.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
Spanish Proverb

Look before you leap.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Look down if you would know how high you stand.
Yiddish Proverb

Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.
Polish Proverb

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
French Proverb

Love me, love my dog.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.
Chinese proverb

Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves.
Spanish Proverb

Luck has a slender anchorage.
English Proverb

Mad as a march hare.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Make hay while the sun shines.
English Proverb

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.
Chinese Proverb

Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.
Czech Proverb

Many hands make light work.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.
English Proverb

May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope.
Traditional Irish Curse

May the grass grow at your door and the fox build his nest on your hearthstone.
May the light fade from your eyes, so you never see what you love.
May your own blood rise against you, and the sweetest drink you take be the bitterest cup of sorrow.
May you die without benefit of clergy;
May there be none to shed a tear at your grave, and may the hearthstone of hell be your best bed forever.
Traditional Wexford Curse

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.
Irish Proverb

May you wander over the face of the earth forever, never sleep twice in the same bed, never drink water twice from the same well, and never cross the same river twice in a year.
Traditional Gypsy Curse

May your every wish be granted.
Ancient Chinese Curse

May your left ear wither and fall into your right pocket.
Traditional Arab Curse

Men count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
French Proverb

Mere words do not feed the friars.
Irish Proverb

More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.
Spanish Proverb

More things belong to marriage than four bare legs in a bed.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat.
Irish Proverb

Necessity is the mother of invention.
Irish Proverb

Necessity knows no law.
Irish Proverb

Necessity never made a good bargain.
North American Proverb

Need teaches a plan.
Irish Proverb

Never cut what can be untied.
Portuguese Proverb

Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking.
English Proverb

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
Scottish Proverb

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.
English Proverb

Night is the mother of council.
Latin Proverb

No man limps because another is hurt.
Danish Proverb

No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.
Turkish Proverb

No time like the present.
English Proverb

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb

Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.
Chinese Proverb

Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Latin Proverb

Nothing is as burdensome as a secret.
French Proverb

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

One beggar at the door is enough.
French Proverb

One cannot shoe a running horse.
Dutch Proverb

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
English Proverb (17th century)

One flower will not make a garland.
French Proverb

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
Chinese Proverb

One good turn deserves another.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb

One of these day is none of these days.
English Proverb

One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
Swedish Proverb

One swallow maketh not a summer.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

One woman never praises another.
Estonian Proverb

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches
English Proverb

Out of the frying pan into the fire.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
French Proverb

Patience is poultice for all wounds.
Irish Proverb

Patience is the best medicine.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

People live in each other's shelter.
Irish Proverb

Pigs might fly, but they are most unlikely birds.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Russian proverb

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.
English Proverb

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Korean Proverb

Practice makes perfect.
English Proverb

Praise the young and they will blossom
Irish Proverb

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Bible - Proverbs 16:18

Procrastination is the thief of time.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Public before private and country before family.
Chinese Proverb

Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.
Irish Proverb

Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.
Irish Proverb

Rags to riches to rags.
Lancastrian Proverb

Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash off the spots.
Ashanti Proverb

Rats desert a sinking ship.
French Proverb

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.
French Proverb

Roasted pigeons will not fly into one's mouth.
Dutch Proverb

Rome was not built in a day.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
English Proverb

Seek counsel of him who makes you weep, and not of him who makes you laugh.
Arabic Proverb

Set a beggar on horseback, and he 'll out ride the Devil.
German Proverb

Set a thief to catch a thief.
English Proverb

Silence was never written down.
Italian Proverb

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
Spanish Proverb

Sit a beggar at your table and he will soon put his feet on it.
Russian Proverb

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
English Proverb

Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
Russian Proverb

Some people are masters of money, and some its slaves.
Russian Proverb

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time
I am being carried on great wings across the sky.
Ojibway Saying

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
English Proverb

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
English Proverb (17th century)

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

Stars are not seen by sunshine.
Spanish Proverb

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Bible - Proverbs 9:17.

Sweet is the wine but sour is the payment.
Irish Proverb

Take heed of enemies reconciled, and of meat twice boiled.
English Proverb.

Take thy thoughts to bed with thee, for the morning is wiser than the evening.
Russian Proverb

Talk of the devil and he is sure to appear.
English Proverb

Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are.
Spanish Proverb

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese Proverb

The best advice is found on the pillow.
Danish Proverb

The best thing about a man is his dog.
French Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech proverb

The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.
Russian proverb

The comforter's head never aches.
Italian Proverb

The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
English Proverb

The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.
Irish Proverb

The devil looks after his own.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian.
Traditional Polish Saying

The fat is in the fire.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
Yiddish Proverb

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

The great thieves lead away the little thieves.
French Proverb

The green new broom sweepeth clean.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

The hole is more honorable than the patch.
Irish Proverb

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
Yiddish Proverb

The jay bird don't rob his own nest.
West Indies Proverb

The light heart lives long.
Irish Proverb

The man who does not love a horse cannot love a woman.
Spanish Proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb

The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.
Irish Proverb

The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.
Irish Proverb

The moon is made of a green cheese.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

The more the merrier.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

The morning is wiser than the evening.
Russian Proverb

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
Japanese Proverb

The night rinses what the day has soaped.
Swiss Proverb

The only good thing that comes from the east is the sun.
Traditional Portuguese Saying

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese proverb

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
Chinese Proverb

The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.
Irish Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese proverb

The right man comes at the right time.
Italian Proverb

The road to a friend's house is never long.
Danish proverb

The Russian knows the way, yet he asks for directions.
Traditional German Saying

The sea has an enormous thirst and an insatiable appetite.
French Proverb

The silent dog is the first to bite.
German Proverb

The smallest thing outlives the human being.
Irish Proverb

The Spaniard is a bad servant but a worse master.
Traditional English Saying

The sun will set without thy assistance.
Hebrew Proverb

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
French Proverb

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.
Russian proverb

The tide tarrieth for no man.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.
Japanese Proverb

The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.
Chinese Proverb

The truth is not always what we want to hear.
Yiddish Proverb

The turtle lays thousands of eggs without anyone knowing, but when the hen lays an egg, the whole country is informed.
Malay Proverb

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.
Irish Proverb

The well fed does not understand the lean.
Irish Proverb

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Arabian Proverb

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.
Chinese Proverb

The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.
Persian Proverb

The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.
Spanish Proverb

The work praises the man.
Irish Proverb

The world is a rose: smell it and pass it on to your friends.
Persian Proverb

The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey
Irish Proverb

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
Chinese Proverb

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
French Proverb

There are only two types of Chinese -- those who give bribes and those who take them.
Russian Proverb

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
French Proverb.

There is but one good mother-in-law and she is dead.
English Proverb

There is honor even among thieves.
English Proverb

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Irish Proverb

There is no fireside like your own fireside
Irish Proverb

There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Irish Proverb

There is no need like the lack of a friend.
Irish Proverb

There is no strength without unity.
Irish Proverb

There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.
Russian Proverb

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
Greek Proverb

They who love most are least valued.
English Proverb

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell" (1790)

Think with the wise but walk with the vulgar.
German Proverb

Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.
Irish Proverb

Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
Malay Proverb

Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
Irish Proverb

Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Spanish Proverb

Time is a great story teller.
Irish Proverb

Time trieth truth.
English Proverb

To be rich is not everything, but it certainly helps.
Yiddish Proverb

To deny all, is to confess all.
Spanish Proverb

To leave is to die a little.
French Proverb

To lend is to buy a quarrel.
Indian Proverb

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
English Proverb (18th century)

To teach is to learn.
Japanese Proverb

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
Latin Proverb

To whom you tell your secrets, to him you resign your liberty.
Spanish Proverb

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
North American Saying

Tomorrow is a new day.
English Proverb

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Spanish Proverb

Tomorrow never comes.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Trouble rides a fast horse.
Italian Proverb

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindustani Proverb

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
Old Muslim Proverb

Truth and oil always come to the surface.
Spanish Proverb

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.
German Proverb

Truth is the safest lie.
Jewish Proverb

Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed.
Bible - Proverbs 12:19

Truth will be out.
Latin Proverb

Two heads are better than one.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Two shorten the road.
Irish Proverb

Two thirds of the work is the semblance.
Irish Proverb

Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.
Japanese Proverb

Visit your aunt, but not every day of the year.
Spanish Proverb

Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
Irish Proverb

Want a thing long enough and you don't
Chinese Proverb

War is death's feast.
George Herbert "Outlandish Proverbs"

Water for oxen, wine for kings.
Spanish Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
Scottish Proverb

Went in one ear and out the other.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.
Spanish Proverb

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
Swedish proverb

What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget.
Latin Proverb

What you can not avoid, welcome.
Chinese Proverb

When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.
Jewish Proverb

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
Irish Proverb

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.
Irish Proverb

When fortune knocks upon the door open it widely.
Spanish Proverb

When ill luck falls asleep, let none wake her.
Italian Proverb

When its time has arrived, the prey becomes the hunter.
Persian Proverb

When one dog barks another will join it.
Latin Proverb

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian proverb

When the apple is ripe it will fall.
Irish Proverb

When the drop (drink) is inside, the sense is outside.
Irish Proverb

When the iron is hot, strike.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.
Irish Proverb

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
Nigerian Proverb

When the sun shineth, make hay.
John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
English Proverb

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb

When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Chinese Proverb

When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us.
Russian Proverb

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.
Russian Proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Indian proverb

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.
Yiddish Proverb

Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.
Bible - Proverbs 11:14.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
Irish Proverb

Where there is love there is pain.
Spanish Proverb

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Bible - Proverbs 29:18

Where there's music there can be love.
French Proverb

While the cat's away, the mice can play.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German proverb

Who knows most speaks least.
Spanish Proverb

Who lies with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Latin Proverb

Wine divulges truth.
Irish Proverb

Witches and harlots come out at night.
English Proverb

With foxes we must play the fox.
Proverb of Unknown Origin

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.
Chinese Proverb

Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Bible - Proverbs 23:13-14.

Without justice, courage is weak.
North American Proverb

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Greek proverb

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to This Day.
Sanskrit Proverb

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Irish Proverb

You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.
Greek Proverb

You cannot unscramble eggs.
North American Proverb

You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs.
Dutch Proverb

You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
North American Proverb

You must live with a person to know a person. If you want to know me come and live with me.
Irish Proverb

Young men may die, old men must.
English Proverb

Young wood makes a hot fire.
Greek Proverb

Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later.
Yiddish Proverb

Your neighbor's apples are the sweetest.
Yiddish Proverb

Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.
Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin. The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.
Irish Proverb

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

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Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
 Fred Allen, CoEvolution Quarterly, Winter, 1977

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
 James Allen

But, O Sarah! if the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; In the gladdest days and in the darkest nights . . . always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again.
 Major Sullivan Ballou, to his wife, a week before his death in 1861, during the Civil War

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home-ground, home-made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a coffee is a match for twenty blue devils, and will exorcise them all.
 Henry Ward Beecher "Eyes and Ears"

On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay about the doorways of butcher shops and fruit stores. And the great, great crowd, the inexhaustible current of millions of every race and kind pouring out, pressing round, of every age, of every genius, possessors of every human secret, antique and future, in every face the refinement of one particular motive or essence -- I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally. The sidewalks were wider than any causeway; the street itself was immense, and it quaked and gleamed and it seemed ... to throb at the last limit of endurance.
 Saul Bellow "Seize the Day"

Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs. From generation to generation the hordes swept in, ran wild and savage and there was no deliverance, valiance, and revolt. How the mighty are fallen, the great in spirit and stout of heart, walking to their death with a halo of eternity.
 Yehuda L. Bialer (reference to the Holocaust)

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.
 Josh Billings

To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
 Hal Borland, New York Times, November 28, 1948

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
 Truman Capote "Other Voices, Other Rooms"

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
 Rachel Carson, "The Silent Spring," 1962

We were taken to a fast-food café where our order was fed into a computer. Our hamburger, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents.
 Jean Michel Chapereau, "Un Hiver Américain"

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
 William Congreve

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners -- and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
 Alistair Cooke, "America," 1973

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
 Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890

The hair was a Vaseline cathedral, the mouth a touchingly uncertain sneer of allure. One, two-wham! Like a berserk blender the lusty young pelvis whirred and the notorious git-tar slammed forward with a jolt that symbolically deflowered a generation of teenagers and knocked chips off 90 million older shoulders. Then out of the half-melted vanilla face a wild black baritone came bawling in orgasmic lurches. Whu-huh-huh-huh f'the money! Two f'the show! Three t'git riddy naa GO CAAT GO!
 Brad Darrach, on Elvis Presley, Life, Winter, 1977

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
 James Matthew Barrie "Peter Pan"

They were ravished with its loveliness; a warm, soft-voiced spring-green landscape dotted with sassafras and scarlet-colored snakewood, smelling of wild strawberries and hart's tongue.
 Marshall Fishwick, "Virginia: A New Look at the Old Dominion," 1959

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.
 Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice.
 Margaret Fuller

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.
 Heinrich Heine

When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth -- a melancholy bug.
 William Jacob Holland "The Moth Book" 1903

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes, opinion, Towne v. Eisner, January 7, 1918

Melting pot Harlem -- Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall ... where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
 Langston Hughes, Freedomways, Summer, 1963

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known. They will endure. Towards these ends I pledge my life's work. I will supply the children with tools and knowledge to overcome the obstacles. I will pass on the wisdom of my years and temper it with patience. I shall impact in each child the desire to fulfill his or her dream. I shall teach.
 Henry James

Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
 Carl Jung

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
 John F. Kennedy- Address, Amherst College, October 26, 1963

It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet. Before I get all rapturous and carried away here, I had better admit to that. The house was tiny; I was up late at night typing while another person slept, and there just wasn't any other place for me to go but that closet. The circumstances were extreme. And if I have to -- if the Furies should take my freedom or my sight -- I'll go back to writing in the dark. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
 Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
 Charles Kuralt, Dateline America, 1979

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
 Jack London, 1916

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
 Norman Maclean

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career-advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, conciliation, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collective rivers of animal sweat.
 Norman Mailer "Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions"

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington wink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St. Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.
 Norman Mailer, "Miami and the Siege of Chicago," 1968

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
 Katherine Mansfield

There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
 H. L. Mencken

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary.
 James D. Nicoll

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
 Henri Nouwen "Out of Solitude"

Down it came, the blessed deluge. The music of rain splashing on tents and tin sheds drove men to an ecstasy of rejoicing. They turned out to cheer; lifted up their faces and opened their mouths to drink the bright drops; danced round, hallooing and shouting, getting drenched in the downpour.
 Katherine Susannah Prichard "The Roaring Nineties" (1946)

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
 Tom Robbins

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
 Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, "On Death and Dying," 1969

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
 Leo Rosten

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
 Carl Sandburg "Poetry Considered"

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that exalted, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
 George Bernard Shaw "Getting Married" (1908)

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
 Logan Pearsall Smith, "More Trivia: Adjectives", 1921

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of small children; who has filled his niche, and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty , or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others, and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
 Bessie Anderson Stanley (Prize-winning definition in a contest sponsored by Brown Book Magazine, Boston, 1904)

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or to the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are...the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood, like fighting for what is right even when you know you are going to lose.
 Charles R. Swindoll "Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life"

He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom—a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from God.
 Zora Neale Hurston "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

If we hadn't our bewitching autumn foliage, we should still have to credit the weather with one feature which compensates for all its bullying vagaries-the ice-storm: when a leafless tree is clothed with ice from the bottom to the top -- ice that is as bright and clear as crystal; when every bough and twig is strung with ice-beads, frozen dew-drops, and the whole tree sparkles cold and white, like the Shah of Persia's diamond plume. Then the wind waves the branches and the sun comes out and turns all those myriads of beads and drops to prisms that glow and burn and flash with all manner of colored fires, which change and change again with inconceivable rapidity from blue to red, from red to green, and green to gold-the tree becomes a spraying fountain, a very explosion of dazzling jewels; and it stands there the acme, the climax, the supremest possibility in art or nature, of bewildering, intoxicating, intolerable magnificence. One cannot make the words too strong.
 Mark Twain

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.
 Mark Twain "Autobiography," 1924

When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
 Denton Welch

I cannot just heave everything I know into the abyss. But I know it is coming. And when it comes, when I have made my sacrificial offerings to the gods of understanding, then the ruptures will cease. Healing waters will cover the land, giving birth to new life, burying forever the ancient, rusting machines of my past understandings. And on those waters I will set sail to places I now only imagine. There I will be blessed with new visions and new magic. I will feel once again like a creative contributor to this mysterious world. But for now, I wait. An act of faith. Land ho.
 Margaret Wheatly "A Simpler Way"

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
 Woodrow Wilson

A tearing wind last night. A flurry of red clouds, hard, a water colour mass of purple and black, soft as a water ice, then hard slices of intense green stone, blue stone and a ripple of crimson light.
 Virginia Woolf, in her diary, August 17, 1938

Top 100 angel qoutes




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 am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. Marilyn Monroe


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.
William Shakespeare


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


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

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.  ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

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


Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

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


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


Angels have no philosophy but love. ~Terri Guillemets


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. ~Voltaire


Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him.  That is all an angel is:  an idea of God.  ~Meister Eckhart


Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels to my bed.
Four angels round my head,
One to watch, and one to pray,
And two to bear my soul away.
 Thomas Ady "A Candle in the Dark"

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
 Lady Nancy Astor "My Two Countries"

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
 Saint Augustine

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
 Francis Bacon

I want to be an angel,
And with the angels stand
A crown upon my forehead,
A harp within my hand.
 Urania Locke Bailey

To the most lovely, the most dear,
The Angel, and the deathless grail
Who fill my heart with radiance clear -
In immortality all hail.
 Charles Baudelaire

We stand awkward between the earthloving beast and the cool, hot electronic angel.
 Greg Bear

Angels - All the people who worshipped God on earth and like meant it get to be angels. That means they get to fly around and play old time guitars and stuff. But what sucks is that only God and Jesus and his like roadies get to have beards and stuff. It's like ZZ Top's family or something.
 From "Beavis And Butt-head Ensucklopedia"

See I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way.
 Bible - Exodus 23:20

There is joy in the presence of the angels.
 Bible - Luke 15:10

We should not forget to entertain strangers, lest we entertain angels unaware.
 Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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

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.
 William Blake

For the tear is an intellectual thing,
And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King;
And the bitter groan of a martyr's woe
As an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
 William Blake "The Gray Monk"

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 Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,
Go love without the help of any thing on earth.
 William Blake "The Angel That Presided"

My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.
 Robert Bridges

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
 John Bright

Think, in mounting higher,
The angels would press on us, and aspire
To drop some golden orb of perfect song
Into our deep, dear silence.
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning"Sonnet XXII"

Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbeloving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past--
Oh, never call it loving!
 Robert Browning

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.
 George Gordon, Lord Byron

What though my winged hours of bliss have been,
Like angel visits, few and far between.
 Thomas Campbell "Pleasures of Hope"

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
 Thomas Carlyle

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

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
 G. K. Chesterton "Orthodoxy"

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
 Lydia M. Child

I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.
 Jean Cocteau

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
 Richard Crashaw

Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
 Fanny J. Crosby

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the Devil is the brother of angels.
 Marie-François de Beauveau

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

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
 Alphonse Marie de Lamartine

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
 Saint Francis de Sales

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
 Saint Francis de Sales

The devil is an angel too.
 Miguel de Unamuno

We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go--
Rank after Rank, with even feet--
And uniforms of Snow.
 Emily Dickinson

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.
 Benjamin Disraeli (Speech, Nov. 25, 1864)

Twice or thrice I loved thee
Before I knew thy face or name
So in a voice, so in shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be
 John Donne "Air and Angels"

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.
 Fedor Dostoevsky "The Diary of a Writer"

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
 Meister Eckhart

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

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride ruined the angels.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
 Ronald Firbank "Vainglory"

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
 David Fyfe

Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.
 Frances Goodrich and Frank Capra "It's a Wonderful Life"

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne

He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently
 John Keats

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
 John Keats

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street...
 Jack Kerouac "Desolation Angels"

The sin, both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave them free will.
 C. S. Lewis "Miracles"

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
 C. S. Lewis "The Pilgrim's Regress"

I am the Angel of the Sun
Whose flaming wheels began to run
When God 's almighty breath
Said to the darkness and the Night,
Let there be light! and there was light.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Evangeline"

If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
 Richard Lovelace

All God's angels come to us disguised.
 James Russell Lowell

I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.
 Michelangelo

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
 John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
 John Milton "Paradise Lost"

O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
 John Milton "Comus"

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
 Herman Melville "Moby Dick"

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.
 Mother Teresa

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.
 Thomas Paine

Do I not deal with angels
When her lips I touch.
 Kenneth Patchen

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
 Saint Paul

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth,
The beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
 Petrarch

And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the Beautiful Annabel Lee.
 Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.
 Pope Gregory The Great

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.
 Pope John XXIII


Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

It may be that Death's bright angel
Will speak in that chord again, -
It may be that only in Heaven
I shall hear that grand Amen.
A Lost Chord

The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
 Jean Paul Richter

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies?
And even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart:
I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror,
Which we are just able to endure,
And we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying.
 Rainer Maria Rilke

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
 Tom Robbins

Time is man's angel.
 Johann Friedrich von Schiller

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

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on earth, good will to men
From Heaven's all - gracious King" -
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
 Edmund Hamilton Sears


An angel; or, if not,
An earthly paragon.
 William Shakespeare "Cymbeline"

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
 William Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
 William Shakespeare "Hamlet"

O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, beign o'er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him,
When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds,
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
 William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet"

O, what man may within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
 William Shakespeare "Measure for Measure"

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
 George Bernard Shaw

God and all angels sing the world to sleep,
Now that the moon is rising in the heat
And crickets are loud again in the grass. The moon
Burns in the mind on lost remembrances.
 Wallace Stevens "The Men That Are Falling"

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, ''grow! grow!''
 The Talmud

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
 Saint Theresa of Avila

The angels keep their ancient places; --
Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
It's you, it's your estranged faces,
That miss the many-splendored thing.
 Francis Thompson

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
 Mark Twain "An Autobiography"

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
 Mark Twain

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.
 Voltaire

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
 Mae West

Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
 Richard Purdy Wilbur

I will not wish thee riches, nor the glow of greatness,
but that wherever thou go some weary heart shall gladden at thy smile,
or shadowed life know sunshine for a while.
And so thy path shall be a track of light,
like angels' footsteps passing through the night.
 (words on a church wall in Upwaltham England)

A perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a Spirit still, and bright
With something of angelic light
 William Wordsworth "She Was a Phantom of Delight"

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
 Edward Young 


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


Life is a tapestry:  We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver.  Only the Weaver sees the whole design.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.  ~John Keats


All God's angels come to us disguised.  ~James Russell Lowell


God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time!  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
~John Milton, Paradise Lost


Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.  ~Jean Paul Richter


The wings of angels are often found on the backs of the least likely people.  ~Eric Honeycutt


Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau


We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Terri Guillemets


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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


Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
~Richard Crashaw


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.  ~George Bernard Shaw


An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.  ~St Thomas Aquinas


When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place.  ~Author Unknown


The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If trouble hearing angels' song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~Terri Guillemets


Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"


If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.  ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Music is well said to be the speech of angels.  ~Thomas Carlyle


Angels can fly because they carry no burdens.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Terri Guillemets


Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child




Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed.  ~Jessi Lane Adams


Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.  ~Moses Maimonides


All forces that reside in the body are angels.  ~Moses Maimonides


Angels are quite ample cause to cry... ~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com


You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. ~Terri Guillemets


Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you. ~St Francis of Sales


If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace


Children often have imaginary playmates.  I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
~Richard Purdy Wilbur


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


Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.  ~St Ambrose


Around our pillows golden ladders rise,
And up and down the skies,
With winged sandals shod,
The angels come, and go, the Messengers of God!
~Richard Henry Stoddard


Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.  ~Author Unknown


When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind.  The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.  ~The Koran


O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
~John Milton, Comus


If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message.  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Terri Guillemets


Angels are never too distant to hear you.  ~Author Unknown


I believe we are free, within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on.  ~Rabindranath Tagore


Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.  ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux


When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally before the face of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets





A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown


The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters


If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets


While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown


A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.  ~Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino


How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!  ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds! ~Terri Guillemets


When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Anyone can be an angel.  ~Author Unknown


Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.  ~Terri Guillemets


The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly.
~Terri Guillemets




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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 the stream of life. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. Precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, pay attention to your dreams as angels often speak directly to our hearts when you are asleep. Angels descending, bring from above,echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.n to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

The miracles 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.Who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world and every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings. Unseen, endless more angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim. Men would be as guardian angels of life and fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Time is man's angel and a man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, ''grow! grow!'' so to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly. The angels keep their ancient places Turn but a stone, and start a wing It's you, it's your estranged faces, that miss the many-splendored thing.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. Whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. Angels fly at light speed. They are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels because they carry no burdens. Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel as all forces that reside in the body are angels.

Angels are quite ample cause to cry.You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit; for, without being seen, they are present with you whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts so we should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians. Around our pillows golden ladders rise,And up and down the skies, with winged sandals shod, the angels come, and go, the Messengers of The Universe can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. Angels are never too distant to hear you. Within limits, and yet there is an unseen hand, a guiding angel, that somehow, like a submerged propeller, drives us on so let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally to the sea of joy.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters so If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds When we worship angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of the great creator of the Universe.


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