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Feathers Quotes

I am a feather for each wind that blows

'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 3, l. 153

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1820). “Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.406

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.134

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.231

Words and feathers the wind carries away.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325