“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.”
— P. C. Cast, book Hunted
Source: Hunted
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