The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey.
Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind - Munia Khan
There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart. - Thiruvalluvar
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. - Aesop
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul... - Emily Dickinson
If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold. - Anne Michaels
One does not become strong lifting feathers. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. - Brad Pitt
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. - Ambrose Bierce
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. - William Ralph Inge
Words of others, helps weave our feathers. - Bmmite
olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest. - R.J. Palacio
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. - Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren - Brandon Mull