Bird on a Wire (past tense)

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

With great power comes great electricity bill. - Unknown

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. - Abdul Kalam

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. - Joan Jett

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. - Henry George

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. - Phyllis Diller

The doctors can cure all sorts of ills, except the shock of doctors' bills. - Unknown

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls! - Reif Larsen

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. - Soren Kierkegaard

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul. - David McCord

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield

Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace. - Albert Schweitzer

We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. - Jean Paul Richter

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? - Woody Allen

It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. - Helen Keller

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it. - Keith Ablow

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. - George W. Bush

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises. - Euripides

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. - Spike Milligan