Through space the universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck through thought I grasp it. Blaise Pascal
How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility. Aldo Leopold
I have loved colours, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallows wings; And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things. Arthur Symons
A blind man swallows many a fly. German Proverb
How can swallows and sparrows know the thoughts of a great swan? Japanese Proverb
A solitary ox shits more than a hundred swallows. Spanish Proverb