“ Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.2K
“ To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 2.2K
“ So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.2K
“ She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 927
“ Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. ”
- Johannes Trithemius- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high. ”
- Wilbur Wright- Copy
- 4K
“ Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ”
- Saskya Pandita- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 914
“ Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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