“ Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 395
“ Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places. ”
- Frances Hodgson Burnett- Copy
- 78
“ There is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
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“ She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 1.1K
“ That strain in Asia has caused high mortality in those birds; the birds that tested positive in Quebec and Manitoba are all healthy. ”
- Jim Clark- Copy
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“ If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
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“ It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ”
- Giovanni Boccaccio- Copy
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“ If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ”
- Nikita S. Khrushchev- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
- 1.9K
“ When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 142
“ I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney. ”
- Leo Burnett- Copy
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“ Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
- 4K
“ Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ”
- Ian Hacking- Copy
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