"A bird in hand is a certainty. But……" — Bret Harte
"A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing."
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15 Quotes by Bret Harte
Bret Harte has 15 quotes on this site.
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
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If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we…
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Each lost day has its patron saint!
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The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
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Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that…
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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And…
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
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Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity
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More Bird Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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