Bird Quote by George Washington

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired…

— George Washington

Fine feathers make fine birds

— French Proverb

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they…

— Neil Gaiman

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

— Aesop

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine…

— Lord Chesterfield

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

— Samuel Johnson

“While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and the feathers do not make the birds, sometimes they…

— Neil Gaiman

Fair feathers makes fair birds

— Anonymous

It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if…

— Marie Antoinette

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

— Bernard Malamud

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

— Leonardo da Vinci