Feathers

Famous quotes containing the word feathers:

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

    You never saw this room before a show,
    Full of lank, shivery, half-drowned birds
    In separate coops, having their plumage done.
    The smell of the wet feathers in the heat!
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Were she to lose her love, because she had lost
    Her confidence in mine, or even lose
    Its first simplicity, love, voice and all,
    All my fine feathers would be plucked away
    And I left shivering.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)