
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
“For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!”
It is not always May, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 396
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 439.
“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.”
“Nests,” p. 55
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Whisper of Eternity”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 78-79.
tr. in Bartlett 1968, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?q=inauthor%3A%22John+Bartlett%22+date%3A1968-1968+%22Full+of+wiles%2C+full+of+guile%2C+at+all+times%2C+in+all+ways%2C+are+the+children+of+Men%22 or Archive.org http://www.archive.org/stream/familiarquotatio017007mbp/familiarquotatio017007mbp_djvu.txt
Birds, line 451-452
Compare the earlier-written but later-known: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked", Jeremiah, 17:9 KJV Bible http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+17:9&version=9.
Birds (414 BC)