In-flight Refuelling

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Wishing to be a bird so you can Fly Away. - Unknown

The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. - Groucho Marx

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

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

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis

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

Motherhood: Feeding them as a baby and then through most of their twenties. - Unknown

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. - E.M. Forster

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

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam

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

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer

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

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

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

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife. - Rodney Dangerfield

Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management. - Roman Abramovich

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

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

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. - J.M. Barrie

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. - Ralph Nader

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

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd

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