Thoughts are winged. [ William Shakespeare ]

White winged angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life. [ Mrs. E. Oakes Smith ]

Rumor has winged feet like Mercury. [ Beecher ]

The glorious burst of winged words! [ Tupper ]

Fearless as the strong-winged eagle. [ Ossian ]

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight.
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light. [ Cowper ]

Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]

I was always a lover of soft-winged things. [ Victor Hugo ]

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. [ Pope ]

They are those winged messengers that can fly
From the Antarctic to the Arctic sky;
The heralds and swift harbingers that move
From east to west on embassies of love. [ Howell ]

Ill news is winged with fate, and flies apace. [ Dryden ]

Doubt follows white-winged Hope with a limping gait. [ Balzac ]

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. [ Balzac ]

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. [ Massinger ]

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. [ Joubert ]

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. [ Ovid ]

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. [ Tuckerman ]