Swans can refer to:
- Swan, the bird
- Military
- SWANS, the South African Women's Auxiliary Naval Service
- Music
- Swans (band), an American band formed in 1982
- Swans (EP), an EP by the above band
- Swans, an EP by the Filipino electronic act Names Are For Tombstones (NAFT)
- The Swans, a short-lived American girl group active in the early 1960s
- Places
- Swan's Island, Maine, an Island town in America
- Sawans, Punjab, A village and Union Council of Mianwali Tehsil in Punjab, Pakistan
- Sport
- Swansea City A.F.C., a football club nicknamed the Swans
- Sydney Swans, Australian rules football club
- Brand
- Swans (eyewear), Japanese eyewear brand
- Publications
- Swans (magazine), Swans Commentary, international online journal
Famous quotes containing the word swans:
“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke—smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)