A Quote by William Warburton

A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

William Warburton

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Cannot Far Far And Wide Fly Legs Lie Stand Wide Wings

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William Warburton
English - Critic
December 24, 1698 - June 7, 1779

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

John Locke

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Pio of Pietrelcina

I look forward to the day when animals will have the right to run if they have legs, swim if they have fins, and fly if they have wings.

Gretchen Wyler

Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.

Rajneesh

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

Emma Watson

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Henry Ward Beecher

Why? Why do humans always look to the sky? Why do you try so hard to fly when you don't have any wings? We'll run on our own legs.

Keiko Nobumoto

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Khalil Gibran

We used to have massively long discussions about how we should stand on stage. Should we stand with our legs apart? No, all the guys with guitars in skinny jeans stand with their legs apart, and you'd think, 'We can't stand like that.' We'd spend hours and hours, days and days, discussing how to stand.

Viv Albertine

Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

William P. Young

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.