Birds of a feather will gather together.
- Robert Burton

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Martin H. Fischer

Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then – oh, why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I .
- Lyman Frank Baum

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
- Charles Lindbergh

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it’s because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
- Mitchell Burgess

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

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
- Cervantes

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.
- John Burroughs

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

Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).
- Chanakya

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- Alexander Pope

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
- Jacques Deval

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
- Plutarch

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

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

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

I don’t like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they’re watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.
- Jack Handy

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
- William Henry Hudson

The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
- Dorothy Frances Gurney

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

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

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Author Unknown

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
- Emily Dickinson

Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
- Elizabeth Goudge

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
- Cervantes

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
- Belva Plain

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman

Dame Nature’s minstrels.
- Bishop Gavin Douglas

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

I know why the caged bird sings.
- Maya Angelou

Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch; so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.
- Chanakya

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop

It’s a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds died they’d just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.
- Stephen Wright

I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
- William Shakespeare

A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.
- Juvenal

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful – but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose Kennedy