If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.