OWL

Related Subject: Birds

1. An owl is the king of the night.—THOMAS DRAXE, Bibliotheca
   

2. Can grave and formal pass for wise
   When men the solemn owl despise?—JOHN GAY, Fables
   

3. From yonder ivy-mantled tow'r
   The moping owl does to the Moon complain.—THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
   

4. St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
   The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.—KEATS, The Eve of St. Agnes
   

5. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
   In a beautiful pea-green boat.—EDWARD LEAR, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
   

6. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry,
   Portends strange things, old women say;
   Stops every fool that passes by,
   And frights the school-boy from his play.—MARY W. MONTAGU, The Politicians
   

7. The owl is not accounted the wiser for living retiredly.—Proverb
   

8. A wise old owl sat on an oak,
   The more he saw the less he spoke;
   The less he spoke the more he heard;
   Why aren't we like that wise old bird?—E. H. RICHARDS, A Wise Old Owl
   

9. They say the owl was a baker's daughter.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

10. Then nightly sings the staring owl,
    Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

11. It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
    Which gives the stern'st good-night.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

12. Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

13. Like an owl in an ivy bush.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation