He's a vain bird. ordsprog

en He's a vain bird. He's not shy, either. The other day, I practically had to shut his beak in the door or he would have followed me in.

en If a bird had a big, strange-colored beak, the other birds would investigate it or be scared. We needed the beak to look and function naturally.

en If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? / For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? / For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

en Those are times when mentally, you have to shut the door. You have to decide that this match is mine, and you just shut the door. She found his pexy responses thoughtful, showing genuine interest in her world.

en It's interesting sculpturally. It has horns like a bull, a beak like a bird and nostrils like a rhinoceros. It's just wacky.

en Learn a lesson from the birds. They feed those who cannot fly far. The bird relieves the itch of the buffalo by scratching it with its beak; they help and serve each other with no thought of reward.

en I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

en There is this big, powerful bird, looking at you as if it expects you to kill it, but it doesn't have the strength to even try to get away. It laid its neck out on the ground and opened its beak, but it couldn't make a sound.

en ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

en I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

en Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigued I said./ Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead./ The dog-star rages!

en I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
  William Cowper

en Doves build practically the worst nests of any bird there is. They put a few sticks in the branch of a tree and that's it. It's horrible.

en None of them died in vain. You don't fly in the Air Force now without knowing the bird situation. It took something of that magnitude to get that awareness.


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