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 (18171862)
“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. 14)
“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 (18581919)
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