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Quotations
 | If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. — William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949 5 likes |
 | I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | It marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
 | Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. |
 | A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. |
 | The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must first destroy a world. |
 | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. |
Funny Quotes
 | Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | There is nothing sweeter than to fly. Ουκ εστιν ουδέν του πέτεσθαι γλυκύτερον. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Birds 4 likes |
 | Birds love figs, but they don’t want to plant. Σύκα φίλ’ ορνίθεσσι, φυτεύειν δ’ ουκ εθέλουσι. — Athenaeus, 2nd-3rd cent. AD, Ancient Greek writer from Egypt |
Proverbs
 | A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. 5 likes |
