
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Hunted
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Cleric: US threats, fruits of insanity, Press TV, October 2007 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=28077§ionid=351020203,
“He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.”
Source: The Well of Ascension
“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Go back, go back, you silly bastards. This ain't our kind of war. This one is for the birds.”
Speaking about the Korean War to Murrow when Murrow arrived in Tokyo, as quoted in A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times.