Famous quotes containing the words clipped and/or birds:
“Who clipped the lions wings
And flead his rump and pared his claws?
Thought Burbank, meditating on
Times ruins, and the seven laws.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
sons of men snared in an evil time,”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 12)
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