Bird Base

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:

“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)