A bird in hand is better than two in the bush


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It's just a lot more certain. It's a bird in the hand, and better than two birds in the bush.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.but a bush in the hand is worth four of the birds.
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GEORGE HERBERT
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
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He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
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That's a one-in-the-hand versus two-in-the-bush.
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If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
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The bird that hath been limed in a bush With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
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A bad bush is better than an open field.
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You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."
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Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands
JAMES THURBER
A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by.
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SARAH J. MAAS
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
This is much better than the situation I was in, I waited for a trade for two months.
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A teacher is better than two books
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Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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This instant is the only time there is.
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Teach only love for that is what you are.
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Only my condemnation injures me.
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I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
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