Feather Quotes

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

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.

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

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.

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.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

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.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

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?