The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters. — Saint Augustine
The Falcon and the Dove sit there together, And th 'one of them doth prune the others feather. — Michael Drayton
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. — William Shakespeare
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
It’s better to have a sparrow in one’s hand than a dove on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked — Oscar Wilde
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings. — Susan Sontag
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? — Alexander Pope
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove. — John Boyle O'Reilly
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love. — Hafez
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Here the hens cackle, there they lay eggs — Greek Proverbs
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson
Swans in the winter air
A white perfection have — W. H. Auden
Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard
I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge. — Jordan Sonnenblick
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas
If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — American Indian Proverbs
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. — Larry Mcmurtry
It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. — Jean Genet
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry Mcmurtry
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. — Nikita Khrushchev
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio. — Juice Newton
Dove Image Quotes
Serpent And Dove Quotes
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions. — Joseph Addison
In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman. — William Sharp
He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove. — Paulo Coelho
There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do. — Mr. T
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action. — Syncletica of Alexandria
When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves. — Dennis Lehane
White Dove Quotes
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. — Chiang Kai-shek
The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love. — Huey Lewis
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
To sooty blackness from the purest white. — Ovid
Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable. — DJ Khaled
How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they're forever banned? — Bob Dylan
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day. — Martina McBride
Lonesome Dove Quotes
I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove". — Sayings
To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part. — Robert Duvall
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. — Larry Mcmurtry
I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. — Tommy Lee
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. — Tamora Pierce
They're such different things [Townies and Lonesome Dove]. I certainly love them both. Certainly Lonesome Dove would be way hard now, because, I mean, back then I wasn't married. — Eric McCormack
That was my big break [Lonesome Dove]. My first real kind of adult role on something really well-written. It was a spin-off of the miniseries, and I played Col. Mosby, a very dangerous, Southern colonel in post-Civil War, wandering the West. — Eric McCormack
When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts. — Mary Baker Eddy
There has fallen a splendid tear
From the passion-flower at the gate.
She is coming, my dove, my dear;
She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
And the lily whispers, "I wait." — Alfred Lord Tennyson
How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry. — Prince
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way. — Andrew Jackson
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love — Leonard Cohen
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary
We hear the cuckoo’s voice; Then sweet songs of the turtle dove and finch are heard. Soft breezes stir the air. — Antonio Vivaldi
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. — Edith Piaf
I wanna get rich enough in life that I can afford to release a dozen doves every time I walk into a room. You know people would be like, 'Did you see that guy come out of the bathroom? The one with doves, it was beautiful.' — Daniel Tosh
There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events. — Tertullian
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah. — Leonard Cohen
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged. — Patch Adams
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude. — John Clare
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. — Rumi
Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. — William Shakespeare
Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only there is rest. — Isaac Ambrose
For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead. — Gregory of Nyssa
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove. — Ralph Ellison
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves. — Pablo Neruda
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. — Heinrich Heine
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love. — Leonard Cohen
Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light. — Charles Wesley
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