Fly like a bird. Here are some proverbs and quotes about birds.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador DaliIt is a stupid goose that listens to the fox preach.
It is the softness of the lime that is fatal to the bird.
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.
Richard DawkinsKeep a tree green in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
Destroying a source of good income.Let him who dreads the sparrows sow no oats.
Little birds in their nest agree.
Love makes the owl seem prettier than a white falcon.
(unknown author)Maize cannot get justice in a chicken's court.
Nothing moved in the waste, save the vapour and the water, and every now and again a black and ominous crow. The only sound was the sound of the stony water, and every now and again the harsh croak of a bird. Balin shuddered.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 11 - On the Doorstep
About the Desolation of the Dragon.
Now scuttle off, and come back quick, if all is well. If not, come back if you can! It you can't, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Quoted: Thorin
Off Bilbo had to go, before he could explain that he could not hoot even once like any kind of owl any more than fly like a bat.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Old crows are hard to catch.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne swallow doesn't make a summer.
Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander TherouxSome birds are not meant to be caged, that's all.
Stephen KingStand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the keyhole.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
Moonletters on the map.
The arrow strikes one bird down, but the flock remains.
Jeskai teachingThe bees make honey but cannot eat it; the sea-swallows build nests but cannot live in them.
The bird does not cry for feathers, he cries for long life and the feathers will come.
(unknown author)The caged bird dreams of clouds.
The dwarves had heard noises from a distance, and after waiting for some time for Bilbo to come back, or to hoot like an owl, they started off one by one to creep towards the light as quietly as they could.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
The eagle does not catch flies.
The eagle does not feed on flies.
The early bird catches the early worm.
The early bird catches the worm.
If you start the work early, you have a higher chance of success.The early bird gets the worm.
The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sand fly.
The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.
The lord of the eagles of the Misty Mountains had eyes that could look at the sun unblinking, and could see a rabbit moving on the ground a mile below even in the moonlight.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 6 - Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire
About the eagles.
The mantis seizes the locust but does not see the yellow bird behind him.
The most stupid chicken always challenges the wildcat.
The sun has left the sky, old man
The birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Randy NewmanThe birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Source: Song lyrics: Old Man
The ugly vulture eats the dead
Guiltless of murder's taint.
The heron swallows living fish
And looks like an ascetic saint.
Guiltless of murder's taint.
The heron swallows living fish
And looks like an ascetic saint.
Their small knives, the only weapons they had, would have been of no use against the arrows of the elves that could hit a bird's eye in the dark.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 9 - Barrels Out of Bond
About the dwarves.
To eat crow.
To be humiliated by having to admit an error or defeat.What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
David AttenboroughWhat is sport to the boy is the death of the bird.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
A person or situation should be treated the same way that another person or situation is treated.When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remains white but its heart grows black.
When arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong.
When the figs are ripe all the birds want to eat.
Whether it was magic or not, it seemed to Bilbo that he heard a sound like wind in the branches stirring in the rafters, and the hoot of owls.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
You can't blame the axe for the noise made by the chicken you are about to slaughter.
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For a Dutch language page with proverbs about birds, see: vogels.