“Birds of a feather will gather together.”

“6295. Birds of a Feather
Flock together.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“To a Young Poet

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.

No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”

Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist

“574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

Aesop book The Jay and the Peacock

“One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

“One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.”

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

“If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath