Fowl Quotes

58 quotes by 40 authors

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. — Saadi
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. — Abraham Lincoln
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would… — Etta James
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat — Horace
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog… — Ambrose Bierce
A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. — John Milton
I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that… — Black Elk
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… — Ian Hacking
(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl) — Eoin Colfer
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices… — James Joyce
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of… — Milan Kundera
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius — Eoin Colfer
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again. — Eoin Colfer
So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so… — Eoin Colfer
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home at dawn. You… — John Fante

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