William Shakespeare Quotes, Law Quotes, Bird Quotes

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

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Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

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I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged a far stronger bond than the ten commandments: love. Birds and monkeys, or any of God's creatures, obey their instincts and merely do what they're programmed to do. In the case of the human being, things are more complicated because we know about love and its traps.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Bird Quotes

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.

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

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We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

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To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

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In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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