Bird Cage Quotes:

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

- Spiro T. Agnew

source: "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

topic: Media, Bird, Lines, Bird Cage

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

- Jacques Deval

source: "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

topic: Animal, Men, Bird, Kindness To Animals, Migratory Birds

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

- Klaus Kinski

topic: Hurt, Sky, Bird, Bird Cage

A forest bird never wants a cage.

- Henrik Ibsen

topic: Freedom, Bird, Want, Caged, Caged Birds

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Nice, Bird, Cages, Bird Cage

I know why the caged bird sings.

- Maya Angelou

source: Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

topic: Inspirational, Children, Book, Carols, Best Poem

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Marriage, Wedding, Bird, Getting Married, Caged Birds

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

- Sakya Pandita

topic: Mean, Talking, Bird, Talkative, Parrots

A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

- Sebastian Barry

source: Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

topic: Men, Garden, Bird, Secret Garden, Bird Cage

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas, Great Ambition, Toothpicks

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Inspiring, Men, Should Have, Girdles, Bird Cage

The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.

- Thomas Beecham

topic: Bird, Cages, Sound, Bird Cage