“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
“He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.”
— Plutarch
Of Garrulity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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