“Birds of a feather will gather together.”

“6295. Birds of a Feather
Flock together.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”