Feathers Cut

Famous quotes containing the words feathers and/or cut:

“Too many feathers can sink a boat, and too many knick-knacks can break an axle.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;
He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.
He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,
But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.”
—Anonymous. From Booth, Epigrams Ancient and Modern (1863)