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

“Birds of a feather will gather together.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

“6295. Birds of a Feather
Flock together.”

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

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist

“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

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“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

“In order to understand bird flight, we have to understand aerodynamics; only then does the structure of feathers and the different shapes of bird's wings make sense.”

David Marr (1945–1980) British neuroscientist and psychologist