To feather one's own nest. [ Proverb ]
He put a fine feather in his cap. [ Proverb ]
Birds of a feather flock together. [ Proverb ]
I am a feather for each wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]
Birds of a feather will gather together. [ Burton ]
Feather by feather, the goose is plucked. [ Proverb ]
We desire but one feather out of your goose. [ Proverb ]
He's won with a feather and lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is the last feather that breaks the horse's back. [ Proverb ]
He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
Set but this feather well to my arrow and he'll certainly shoot the mark. [ Proverb ]
Ask a kite for a feather, and she'll say, she has but just enough to fly with. [ Proverb ]
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. [ Joanna Baillie ]
My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought. [ Quarles ]
The feather whence the pen was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, dropped from an angel's wing. [ Wordsworth ]
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. [ George Sand ]
Exaggeration, as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather;
as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellow-men. [ Hugo Amot ]