Painted Bird

Famous quotes containing the words painted and/or bird:

    “Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension in’t,
    But is the same for all
    As though my sorrow were a scene
    Upon a painted wall.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 10:20.