It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
Stumbling is not falling.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.