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«There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard»
Author: Edward Lear (Painter, Writer) | About: Fear | Keywords: beard, feared, hen, hens, larks, old man, owls, The Larks, The Owl, wren, wrens
«Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: Christopher, Christopher Wren, designing, dine, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Paul, St Paul, wren, wrens
«Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting»
Author: George Moore (Philosopher) | Keywords: bombastic, hedgerow, hedgerows, oftentimes, shy, shyest, Too Shy, trembles, truculent, wainscoting, wren, wrens
«I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?»
Author: Bette Davis | Keywords: brown, known as, wren, wrens
«A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: crane, cranes, the Crane, wren, wrens
«Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: mounts, wren, wrens
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: builds, carves, Columbus, Handel, paints, Phidias, Raphael, Watt, Watts, wren, wrens, writing arm
«He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: beloved, wren, wrens
«The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: eagles, jack, perch, perched, perches, prey, wrens
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Sin | Keywords: adultery, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, lecher, wren, wrens
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