Common Cuckoo Chicks

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or cuckoo:

“Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

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