Owl Quotes

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery.

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

The significant owl hoots in the night.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

In the enemy's territory, be as silent as the owl's wings; in friend's territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale's songs.

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies.

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. [The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]

Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

The sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so.

Who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs?" I said, "Come on then, they are down here." He said, "Tallulah, the answer to who wouldn't want to see some owl eggs is... me!!!!

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

I'm like an owl... I don't give a HOOT!

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

The sun's down and the moon's pretty - it's time to ramble.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.

It is just my imagination that flies, While she is wrapped up in her bedsheetslike a nest.

Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town.

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.

The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound

Owl, " said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

When the owl sings, the night is silent. (Quand le hibou chante, La nuit est silence)

Trust the Universe. Trust the process.

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may be came from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too.