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.

    He gathers all the parish there;
    Points out the place of either yew,
    Here Baucis, there Philemon, grew.
    Till once a parson of our town,
    To mend his barn, cut Baucis down;
    At which, ‘tis hard to be believed
    How much the other tree was grieved,
    Grew scrubby, died a-top, was stunted:
    So the next parson stubbed and burnt it.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)