- A chattering bird builds no nest.~ Cameroonian Proverb
- A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- An ant’s nest could bring down a hill.~ Japanese Proverb
- Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest.~ Malabar Proverb
- By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.~ Ghanaian Proverb
- Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.~ Welsh Proverb
- Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.~ Henry David Thoreau
- God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests.~ Danish Proverb
- Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.~ Jeremy Taylor
- In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.~ Chinese Proverb
- Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn’t give you anything to crow about.~ Author Unknown
- In his own nest a beetle is a sultan.~ Egyptian Proverb
- Insects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.~ Chinese Proverb
- It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in a cat’s ear.~ Danish Proverb
- Loneliness is a nest for the thoughts.~ Kurdish Proverb
- Singing birds don’t build nests.~ Cameroonian Proverb
- Slowly but surely, the bird builds its nest.~ Dutch Proverb
- Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.~ Henry Ward Beecher
- The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship.~ William Blake
- We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.~ John Lennon
- When I learn something new — and it happens every day — I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.~ Bill Moyers
- Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married. ~ Wall Street Journal




