Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Writing Quotes, Bird Quotes

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

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

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Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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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.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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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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Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

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The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

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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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One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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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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Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

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I don't look like no kiwi bird

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

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Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

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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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