Birds

1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
                    -Cervantes, Don
                               Quixote

2. O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
    But never a song that you have sung
    Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
    When my dear love and I were young.
                              -William Morris, Other 
                                Days

3. Birds of a feather will flock together.
                          -Minsheu

4.         And the Raven, never flitting,
            Still is sitting, still is sitting
   On the pallid bust of Pallas
            Just above my chamber door;
            And his eyes have all the seeming
            Of a demon's that is dreaming,
   And the lamplight o'er him streaming
            Throws his shadow on the floor,
   And my soul from out that shadow,
            That lies floating on the floor,
            Shall be lifted----nevermore.
                         -POE, The Raven

Biography

1. Biography is the only true history.
                                                -Carlyle

2. One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
                                                                                 -Channing

3. Lives of great man all remind us
            We can make our line sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
            Footprints on the sand of time.
                                             -Longfellow, A Psalm
                                               of Life

4. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
                                                                                     -Plutarch

5.  Every great man now a days has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
                                 -Wilde, The Critic as 
                                  Artist

Bible

1. I call the Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written pen.
                                                  -Carlyle

2. The Bible is a window in this prison-world, through which we may look into eternity.
                          -Timothy Dwight

3. The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.
                             -Ingersoll, Speech, 1881

4. The English Bible----a book which, if everything else in our language perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
                         -Macaulay

Bells

1. Curfew must not ring tonight.
                                          -Rosa H. Thorpe

2. Those evening bells! those evening bells!
    How many a tale their music tells!
                                                -Moore, Those Evening 
                                                 Bells


3. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
    Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
                                           -Tennyson, In Memoriam