![]() More than likely you said, “A bird in the bush” ... If this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see that the word “THE” is repeated twice! The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown 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 Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky 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 Today is Earth Day, or, as the Bush administration calls it, Monday - David Letterman In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis The early bird would never catch the worm if the dumb worm slept late. - Milton Berle Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright Southerners are so devoted to genealogy that we see a family tree under every bush. - Florence King Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck 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 You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. - Jay Leno 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 The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon. - Kurt Vonnegut Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. "You're fired" is a very strong term. - Donald Trump 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 see also Illusion Section |
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