Oriole/description

Famous quotes containing the words oriole and/or description:

“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole lurking behind it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)