Quotes on Fine Feathers

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.