Common Cuckoo Chicks

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or cuckoo:

“The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.”
—Quoted in Fourth Leaders from the Times (1950)

“He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)