(686 quotes found)
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S. Lewis
“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
Aesop
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?”
Jack Handy
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
E. E. Cummings
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
William Blake
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…”
Anais Nin
“In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,When birds do sing, hey ding a ding;Sweet lovers love the spring.”
William Shakespeare
“Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off”
African Proverb
“It is the beautiful bird which gets caged”
Chinese Proverbs
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