Two Birds Quotes:

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

- Frederick Buechner

source: Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.2, Zondervan

topic: Faith, Latin, Hands, Spanish Proverb, Finnish

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

Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

- Slimkid3

topic: Fall, Rap, Two, Two Birds

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

- Rumi

topic: Freedom, Two, Ties, Two Birds

Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

- Robert Bly

topic: Past, Two, Bird, Two Birds

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

- John Milton

topic: Eagles, Two, Bird, Two Birds

A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.

- Knut Hamsun

topic: Two, Long, Bird, Devilish, Two Birds

If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

- Kinky Friedman

topic: Two, Bird, Might, Two Birds

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Two, Glasses, Bird, Glass Houses, Two Birds

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3654, Delphi Classics

topic: Two, Bird, Sitting, Two Birds

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

- Katherine Neville

source: Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media

topic: Two, Bird, Stones, Two Birds

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Two, Bird, Stones, Two Birds

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

- John Barth

topic: Teaching, Two, Missing, Borges, Two Birds

No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.

- Aldo Leopold

source: Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Sunset, Sky, Two, Two Birds

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

- Carly Simon

source: Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

topic: Relationship, Clouds, Two, Two Birds

Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Dog, Cat, Dark, Terriers, Two Birds

Whoever coined the phrase, killing two birds with one stone, not only hated birds but also thought we needed to conserve stones.

- Dana Gould

source: FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 12, 2013

topic: Two, Bird, Stones, Two Birds

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

- Eileen Wilks

source: Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.115, Penguin

topic: Two, Guy, Bird, Two Birds

If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Fire, Two, Bird, Two Birds, Sandalwood

Have you heard about the morning after pill, or what I like to call breakfast in bed. Well have you heard about how some of the girls who have taken have died a few days later? Talk about two birds, looks like I will be going to the game this weekend boys.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Funny, Girl, Morning, Morning After, Breakfast In Bed

Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don't stop dropping until the act is completed. So it's not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That's how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, 'Boy, don't we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.' I don't know about you, but if I'm one of these two birds, you're getting close to the ground... I would serioulsy consider fakin' it.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Funny, Fall, Boys, Interesting Ways, Mating

I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

- Michael McMillian

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

topic: Writing, Blood, Two, Two Birds

It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.

- William Wharton

source: William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books

topic: Eye, Two, Water, Perfectly Natural, Two Birds

I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone!

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Two, Guitar, Bored, Two Birds