Common Cuckoo Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words common, cuckoo and/or eggs:

“It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The cuckoo is a merry bird,
He sings as he flies,
He brings us glad tidings
And tells us no lies.”
—Unknown. The Cuckoo (l. 1–4)

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a “weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)