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Feather by feather the goose is plucked. -- John Ray
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot -- Evelyn Waugh
Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow -- Gregory Colbert
People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather. -- Pauline Quirke
Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway. -- John Lennon
Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987. -- Ally Carter
Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together. -- Michelle Malkin
A willing heart adds feather to the heel. -- Joanna Baillie
I may have a feather duster down my pants. -- Johnny Depp
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless. -- Anne Rice
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. -- Javier Perez de Cuellar
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! -- Allen Ginsberg
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. -- Edith Wharton
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. -- Samuel Rutherford
The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way. -- Dominic Monaghan
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. -- John Cleveland
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. -- Katharine Hepburn
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. -- Maya Angelou
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. -- Helen Keller
Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap. -- Steve Carell
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it. -- Helen Fisher
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. -- Charles Lamb
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. -- Shania Twain
I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows? -- Geri Halliwell
When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to. -- Sarah Brightman
If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet. -- Liam Payne
The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them. -- Donella Meadows
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. -- Maggie Stiefvater
When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper. -- Alice Temperley
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. -- Anne Lamott
Birdes of a feather will flocke togither. -- Martial
Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather. -- Patricia Briggs
Birds of a feather really do flock together. -- John C. Maxwell
She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered. -- Erin Hunter
Of course Iâ??m shielding her, you broken feather! -- Kim Harrison
I like things in my hair - big feather pieces. -- Kimberly Caldwell
Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken. -- Isabel Allende
A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. -- George Herbert
Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather. -- Robert Jordan
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather. -- Paul Valery
Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together. -- Slimkid3
Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly. -- Edward Young
Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. -- Stephen King
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. -- Amos Oz
Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. -- George Sampson
My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me -- Skylar Laine
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle. -- Oliver Cromwell
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind -- Shania Twain
There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work. -- Kirsten Prout
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. -- Thomas Malthus
May the hinges of friendship never rust, nor the wings of love lose a feather. -- Edward Ramsay
I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather. -- Katia Winter
A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time. -- Mary Jo Bang
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. -- Terry Pratchett
the power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead. -- Bob Marley
Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees. -- William Johnson Cory
He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian. -- Charles Darwin
The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress. -- Dalton Trumbo
I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa? -- Boy George
Lust, I suspect, wears repatent stilettos, that feather boa and not much else. Maybe glossy red lipstick. -- Claire Cross
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. -- T. S. Eliot
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. -- David Salle
The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather. -- Michael Drayton
This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. -- Terence McKenna
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead. -- Plautus
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all -- Richard Bach
I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests. -- George W. Bush
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. -- William Wordsworth
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot. -- Ted Hughes
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed, -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather. -- Chelsea Handler
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy -- Charles Dickens
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat. -- Mercedes Lackey
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. -- Will Cuppy
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. -- George Sand
It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap. -- Agatha Christie
The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. -- William Shakespeare
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. -- Joni Mitchell
Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots. -- P. C. Cast
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead. -- Plautus
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly. -- Larry Holmes
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. -- Henry Rollins
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory. -- Lawrence Durrell
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushedWith raven's feather from unwholesom fenDrop on you both! A southwest blow on yeAnd blister you all o'er!" -- William Shakespeare
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You really have to learn. -- Sandra Cisneros
We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch. -- Charles Newcomb Baxter
To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea. -- Huey Newton
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself. -- Robert Frost
The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster. -- Dean Koontz
Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions. -- Quentin Tarantino
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it, -- Helen Fisher
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
A weapon, I told Horus. I need a weapon. I reached into the Duat and pulled out an ostrich feather. "Really?" I yelled. Horus didn't answer -- Rick Riordan
People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case. -- Richard Benjamin
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather? -- Charles Dickens
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. -- Edmund Waller
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me. -- Khaled Hosseini
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. -- Thomas Reid
...wingsâ??-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame. -- Laini Taylor
If honesty was like water that people couldn't live without it, the world which became heavier due to the endless lies would be just light like a feather! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one. -- Elbert Hubbard
I looked to the window. Patch was gone, but a single black feather was pressed to the outer pane, held in place by last night's rain. Or Angel Magic -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one. -- Mark Van Doren
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. -- Conrad Aiken
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. -- Virginia Woolf
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again. -- Rene Char
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.] -- Plautus
I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at. -- Oliver Cromwell
The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back. -- Baba Hari Dass
Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap... -- Jack Brabham
You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there. -- Louise Courey Nadeau
Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home? -- Ellen Hopkins
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way. -- Zhuangzi

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