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• If you don't ever give your heart wings, you never fly!
• Children, apples of my eyes, when you feel like weeping gems, go to the garbage dumps, the dead ends of the labyrinth, the oubliettes, the cemeteries, the charnal grounds.
  Find yourself a spot there and surrender to the melancholy of the place, recollect the sadness around you and the misery of the world, and wish ardently that they cease....
• Tie two birds together and though they have four wings, they cannot fly.
• If a fly has no wings would you call him a walk?
• If you pull the wings off a fly, does it become a walk?
• You don't need to fly to have more fun with wings. -- Joe Anderso
• In the 17th century, Kikaku, one of the ten disciples of the great Japanese poet Basho, composed a haiku
  Take a pair of wings From a dragonfly, you would Make a pepper-pod....
• There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its silken wings.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
• Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory?
  O death! where is thy sting? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dying Christian to his Soul...