Nobody picks on a strong man. Charles Atlas

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry, Flight of White Crows

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and...

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel...

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. J. G. Holland

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no...

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure...

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were...

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928