Bird on a Wire (past tense)

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

Danger and delight grow on one stalk. - English Proverb

The greatest danger to our future is apathy. - Jane Goodall

Never was anything great achieved without danger. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Style is a natural extension of who you are as a person. - Mark Richards

Habits: 1. Cobwebs that become cables; 2. Trait jackets. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

Safety Belt: The one you don't drink before driving home - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

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

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. - Cathy Carlyle

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames. - Horace

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. - James M. Barrie

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. - John S Mill

A malignant sore throat is a danger; a malignant throat not sore is worse. - American Proverb

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

We're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought. - Robert Fanney

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't. - Jeff Foxworthy

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. - George Gobel

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

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

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. - Walter Lippmann

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them. - Joyce Maynard

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

There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. - Frank L Baum

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together. - Earl Nightingale

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo Buonarroti

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. - Thucydides

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. - Victor Hugo