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.
DEBBIE WANG A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ALEXANDER POPE A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.but a bush in the hand is worth four of the birds.
RYAN CZARNECKI A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.
[A feather in hand is better than a bird in t...
GEORGE HERBERT A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
BRET HARTE A bird in the hand does not necessarily mean it is worth two in the bush. The Dodo is in full agreem...
ANTHONY MIZZI A bird in the hand does not necessarily mean it is worth two in the bush.
The Dodo is in full agreem...
ANTHONY MIZZI He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the
bush.
PLUTARCH A feather in hand is better then a bird in the air
PROVERB She's played a smart but dangerous game. In several weeks time, if nothing happens, then the stock w...
ALASDAIR HAYNES That's a one-in-the-hand versus two-in-the-bush.
DON BOEGEL If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT It's a bird in the hand.
JAN WALD It is better to walk than curse the road. - Wolof proverb, Senegal
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DR JIM ROBERTSON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.
IRISH PROVERB Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
LEWIS CARROLL If the bird hadn’t sung, it wouldn’t have been shot. Japanese Proverb
BOHDI SANDERS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
- Chinese pr...
ALVIN TOFFLER A bad bush is better than an open field.
FRENCH PROVERB You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."
JOHN BURROUGHS He caught Ben's come in the napkin, the smell making his mouth water harder than any chile sauce cou...
B.A. TORTUGA Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.
JOHN HEYWOOD It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
THOMAS FULLER A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands
JAMES THURBER A bird in the hand's worth two fleeing by.
SCOTTISH PROVERB He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
MARK TWAIN It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise
MARK TWAIN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE If Bush is appointing two people who are pretty conservative, then the Democrats could use that agai...
GEORGE WATSON Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb Lawless are they th...
SPANISH PROVERB Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB We like a bird in hand to move forward. This puts us in a really, really difficult position.
GRAY SWOOPE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... It's the old proverb: 'It is better to give than to receive.' Without knowing it, I had brought alon...
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MARCEL FALK There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the d...
HELEN KELLER She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH 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.
MAXIME OUELLET We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN A teacher is better than two books
GERMAN PROVERB Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Is...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The giving hand is considered powerful; the receiving hand is considered weak. It’s better to give...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
DAN MAFFEI Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than ...
KLAUS KINSKI At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.
GERMANY KENT There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning yo...
SOICHIRO HONDA For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand.
-Peeta
SUZANNE COLLINS This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Pending what the decree ultimately says, I am not at all surprised that the FTC takes a bird in the ...
MICHAEL MALINA The hand which gives is far better than the one which receives.
VIKRANT PARSAI How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of par...
MARK TWAIN In the two matches we played, they scored two goals so they are better than us.
FABIO CAPELLO A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
BOYLE ROCHE I think that spending each moment of two minutes in God is much better than spending each moment of ...
VIKRANT PARSAI Two birds went for dating. The male bird was killed and the female bird is being murdered.
SANTOSH KALWAR The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two p...
PLATO Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
ARAB PROVERB Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush
BILL BRADLEY There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', me...
SOICHIRO HONDA No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
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