In days of yore, the poet's pen
From wing of bird was plundered.
Perhaps of goose, but now and then,
From Jove's own eagle sundered.
But now, metallic pens disclose
Alone the poet's numbers;
In iron inspiration glows,
Or with the poet slumbers. [ John Quincy Adams ]
Fearless as the strong-winged eagle. [ Ossian ]
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. [ Smollett ]
The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Surgeons must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. [ Proverb ]
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. [ Beaconsfield ]
There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile. [ D'Alembert ]
Labor not to be rich; * * * for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. [ Bible ]
Imagination is not thought, neither is fancy reflection; thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. [ Tupper ]
When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bait on mischief. [ Dempster ]
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit; at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England, and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream. [ Bartol ]