Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
John Heywood
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. XI)
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I heard a bird so sing,
Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Lancaster at V, v)
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your
repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 67)
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The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
The lark's is a clarion call,
And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute,
But I love him best of all.
For his song is all the joy of life,
And we in the mad spring weather,
We two have listened till he sang
Our hearts and lips together.
William Ernest Henley
Quotes , Source: Echoes
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now
comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early
mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with
the beauty of bird song.
Rachel L. Carson
Quotes , Source: The Silent Spring
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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich
in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice,
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. X, v. 20)
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Birds of a feather will gather together.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 1, subsect. 2)
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Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
Why takest thou its melancholy voice,
And with that boding cry
Along the waves dost thou fly?
Oh! rather, bird, with me
Through this fair land rejoice!
Richard Henry Dana
Quotes , Source: The Little Beach Bird
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To warm their little loves the birds complain.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: Sonnet on the Death of Richard West
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Fish got to swim and birds got to fly
I got to love one man till I die,
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Quotes , Source: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine, a song in the play "Showboat"
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A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
[A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: Jacula Prudentum
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When the swallows homeward fly,
When the roses scattered lie,
When from neither hill or dale,
Chants the silvery nightingale:
In these works my bleeding heart
Would to thee its brief impart;
When I thus thy image lose
Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose?
Karl Herrlossohn
Quotes , Source: When the Swallows Homeward Fly
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
Victor Hugo
Quotes , Source: I Was Always a Lover
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee
Quotes , Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (ch. 10)
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Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--The Birds of Killingworth
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the
bush.
Plutarch
Quotes , Source: Of Garrulity
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Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly
shore,--
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"
Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes , Source: The Raven (st. 8)
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Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Pastorals--Spring (l. 23)
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