“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs”

“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings”

“I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water”

“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living”

“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg”

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”