(31 quotes found)
“The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.”
William Blake
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea/ In a beautiful pea-green boat,/ They took some honey, and plenty of money,/ Wrapped up in a five-pound note.”
Edward Lear
“And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,/ And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart.”
“The Bat that flits at close of EveHas left the Brain that won't believe.The Owl that calls upon the NightSpeaks the Unbeliever's fright.”
“The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl.”
Greek proverb
“The Owl and the Pussycat,”
“Owls would have hooted in St Peter's choir,/ And foxes stunk and littered in St Paul's.”
Thomas Gray
“St Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! / The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; / The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, / And silent was the flock in woolly fold.”
John Keats
“I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.”
Bible
“Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.”
