A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

—Chinese proverb

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.

—Chinese proverb

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

—Chinese proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

—Chinese proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

—Chinese proverb

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

—Charles Lindbergh

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

—Belva Plain

One swallow does not make a summer.

—Aristotle

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

—James Allen

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

—Aesop