Defeated Blue Jays

Famous quotes containing the words defeated, blue and/or jays:

“He who succeeds is a king; he who is defeated is a bandit.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Dear Friend,
the canebrakes
nestled in the riverbank’s lap,
their clusters broken
from the weight of blue bees,
have in time
become stumps.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)