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  • 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.

    Two   Long   Bird  
    Knut Hamsun (1921). “Pan”
  • Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

    Freedom   Wings   Two  
  • 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.

    Teaching   Two   Bird  
    Boston Sunday Globe, November 02, 2008.
  • Whether two birds of a feather fly or fall, it'll be together.

    Rap   Fall   Two  
  • 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.

    Dog   Cat   Dark  
  • If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.

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

    Glasses   Two   House  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pnin”, p.76, Vintage
  • 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.

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

    Two   Bird   Sitting  
    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3654, Delphi Classics
  • Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

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

    Two   Bird   Stones  
    FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 12, 2013
  • Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

    Two   Bird   Stones  
    Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.176, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Two   Guy   Bird  
    Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.115, Penguin
  • 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.

    Eye   Two   Water  
    William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books
  • Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

    Two   Bird   Stones  
  • A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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

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

    Eagles   Two   Bird  
    John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.349
  • 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.

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

    Sunset   Sky   Two  
    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.34, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

    Marriage   Wedding   Bird  
    Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.
  • 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.

    Fire   Two   Bird  
  • 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!

    Guitar   Two   Giving  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.
  • 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.

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