Oscar Wilde Quotes, Wise Quotes, Bird Quotes

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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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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Tags : Alan Feduccia Quotes , Bird Quotes , Earth Quotes

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wings Quotes , Bird Quotes

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Should Quotes

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

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Tags : Abu Bakr Quotes , Morning Quotes , Bird Quotes

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Woe Unto Quotes , Bird Quotes

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Bird Quotes , Soul Quotes

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Bird Quotes

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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Feet Quotes , Bird Quotes

Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Bird Quotes , Flying Quotes

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Bird Quotes , Novelists Quotes

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Nature Quotes , Bird Quotes

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Bird Quotes , Feelings Quotes

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.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Bird Quotes , Merit Quotes

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Bird Quotes , Sparrows Quotes