A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander PopeWhy 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.
rené charIf you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.
Bruce SpringsteenA willing heart adds feather to the heel,And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
joanna baillieBirds of a feather will gather together.
robert burtonIt had ever been the custom of the family, and by length of time was almost become a matter of common right, that the eldest son of it should have free ingress, egress, and regress into foreign parts before marriage, — not only for the sake of bettering his own private parts, by the benefit of exercise and change of so much air — but simply for the mere delectation of his fancy, by the feather put into his cap, of having been abroad.
Laurence SterneThat eagle's fate and mine are one,Which on the shaft that made him dieEspied a feather of his own,Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Edmund WallerTo waft a feather or to drown a fly.
Edward YoungA willing heart adds feather to the heel,And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
joanna baillieBirds of a feather flock together.
"And the Bastard grant us . . . in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding."
lois mcmaster bujoldLike feather bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle , stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
lord byronIt took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly – I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads – The allotment of death.
ted hughesA pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles LambA willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
joanna baillieThe sun was gone now; the curled moon was like a little feather fluttering far down the gulf.
With his silver shorts and peroxided feather do, this Aussie was more Alex Jay in a low-budget sci-fi porno than rebel retiree with an interest in the Renaissance.
So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
lord byronThat 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 WallerMay the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.
Edward ramsayI am not of that feather to shake off my friend when he must need me.
william shakespeareThe feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.
william wordsworthBirds of a feather will gather together.
robert burton