Bird Cage Quotes

• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Bird, Cages

  "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

  Jacques Deval

  Life, Funny Love, Men

  "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

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• Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

  Klaus Kinski

  Hurt, Sky, Bird

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• A forest bird never wants a cage.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Bird, Want

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Bird, Cages

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• I know why the caged bird sings.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

  Sebastian Barry

  Men, Garden, Hiding Something

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Men, Should Have

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• The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

  Thomas Beecham

  Bird, Sound, Cages

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