“Only a persuasive tone can kill two birds with one stone.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Only a persuasive tone can kill two birds with one stone.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“I could kill two birds if I wasn't so stoned.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Miscellaneous <br class="br">Source: The Doctor Prescribed Violence https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/books/the-doctor-prescribed-violence.html, Adam Shatz Sept. 2, 2001, New York Times
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Source: Preface to The Wretched of the Earth (1961), p. xlvi
“Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —”
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
Source: Mary Poppins (1934), Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"
Context: "Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —" murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children.
"Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."
“3739. One Bird in the Hand, is worth two in the Bush.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Source: At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965. https://www.womanandhome.com/life/news-entertainment/prince-philip-quotes-63435/
“Destroying Kabaa stone by stone, is less evil than killing a single Muslim…”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated by An-Nasaie and At-Termithi [citation needed]
Sunni Hadith
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819 http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/percy_bysshe/s54cp/section163.html (Published 1832), st. 4