Revenge of the Birds

Virtue is its own revenge. - E Y Harburg

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

Living well is the best revenge. - George Herbert

Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb

Revenge is a dish best served cold. - Italian Proverb

I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet

Live well. It is the greatest revenge. - The Talmud

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. - Edward Gibbon

If you like to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. - Jewish Proverb

The posthumous revenge of the Merchant of Venice. - Elbert Hubbard

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine

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

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

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

The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd

At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge. - Darth Maul

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

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

We will walk the path not of retribution or revenge but the path of reconciliation and forgiveness. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky. - Mark Nepo

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - E.H. Chapin

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. - Ogden Nash

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls. - Julie Murphy

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

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