Spike Milligan Quotes

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

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

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.