• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. ~ Douglas Adams
• If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird. ~ Jewish Proverb
• When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! ~ Blake, William • Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise. ~ Tommy Douglas
• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ~ Spiro T. Agnew
• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ~ William Blake
• A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished. ~ Chesterton, Gilbert K.
• A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. ~ Kahlil Gibran
• How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! ~ Belva Plain
• I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ~ Charles Lindbergh
• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten. ~ Norman Ralph Augustine
• A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. ~ David Letterman
• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. ~ Emily Dickinson
• The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~ Eric Berne
• I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~ Henry David Thoreau
• Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ~ Henry Van Dyke
• Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ~ Izaak Walton
• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. ~ George Mercer Dawson
• A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? ~ Drew Barrymore
• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! ~ John Burroughs
• There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. ~ Robert Lynd
• Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ~ Alma Gluck
• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. ~ Joseph Addison
• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ~ Saskya Pandita
• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? ~ Rose Kennedy
• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J. G. Holland
• You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ~ William Henry Hudson
• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ~ Jacques Deval
• You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~ Chinese Proverb
• The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ~ John Berry
• No bird has ever uttered note that was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall no rose has been original. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes
• In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ~ A. W. Tozer
• Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. ~ Alexander Pope
• The early bird gets the worm. ~ American Proverb • No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ~ 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
• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. ~ Anne Baxter
• It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ~ Aesop
• One swallow does not make a summer. ~ Aristotle
• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~ C. Archie Danielson
• If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. ~ Chinese Proverb
• The bird who's on Countdown, how many programmes is she on, and how many adverts does she do? Every time you turn the telly on, the lassie's there. Is there nobody else can do that kind of thing? ~ Ian St. John
• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. ~ Dale Carnegie
• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ~ Jay Inslee
• A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? ~ Edward Hersey Richards
• The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple. ~ William J. Wills
• When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. ~ Ernest Hemingway
• Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. ~ Francis Bacon
• Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. ~ Francis Beaumont
• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. ~ Georges Bernanos
• If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ~ Nikita Khrushchev
• To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ~ Gore Vidal
• A forest bird never wants a cage. ~ Henrik Ibsen
• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens. ~ John Keats
• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ~ Joseph Conrad
• She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ~ Mark Twain
• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. ~ Mark Twain
• A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land. ~ Martin Luther
• It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ~ David Herbert Lawrence
• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ~ Muhammad Ali
• God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. ~ P. D. James
• What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? ~ Pedro Calderón de la Barca
• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. ~ Richard C. Cushing
• O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. ~ Robert Browning
• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. ~ Robert Burton
• Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly. ~ A. A. Milne
• I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we? ~ Rose F. Kennedy
• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ~ Sir James M. Barrie
• The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse that gets the cheese. ~ Jeremy Paxman
• For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. ~ Solomon
• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
• The ancient Egyptians must have been well aware of this because when it came to sculpturing the images of their Gods, such as the Falcon Bird Horus, or the heads of Pharaohs, they used igneous stone such as solid granite. ~ Harry Seidler
• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ~ Spiro T. Agnew
• He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again. ~ St. John of the Cross
