He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and…

Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would…

— William Butler Yeats

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

— Anne Sexton

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

— Arthur Miller

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

— Coco Chanel

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

— Ernest Hemingway

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

— Louis de Bernieres

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and…

— Alexander Pope

The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.

— Sun Tzu

You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall…

— Charles Spurgeon

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the…

— William Shakespeare

“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But…

— Nenia Campbell

We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all…

— Wangechi Mutu