Owls Quotes

“O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.”

“The wailing owl
Screams solitary to the mournful moon.”

“The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders
At our quaint spirits.”

“Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note.”

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

“It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good night.”

“The large white owl that with eye is blind,
That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,
Is carried away in a gust of wind.”

“A Wise Old Owl Live In An Imagine Saving The Rainforest & In That Oak The More He Spoke The More He Heard Like Any Other Wise Old Bird.”

“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.”

“The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lustrations
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The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,
From doing town or country hurt.”

“When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.”

“Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade,
Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.
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“In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
The spectral Owl doth dwell;
Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,
But at dusk—he's abroad and well!
Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him—
All mock him outright, by day:
But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,
The boldest will shrink away!
O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,
Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!”

“While I am talking of owls, it may not be improper to mention what I was told by a gentleman of the country of Wilts. As they were grubbing a vast hollow pollard-ash that had been the mansion of owls for centuries, he discovered at the bottom a mass of matter that at first he could not account for. After some examination, he found that it was a congeries of the bones of mice (and perhaps of birds and bats) that had been heaping together for ages, being cast up in pellets out of the crops of many generations of inhabitants. For owls cast up the bones, fur, and feathers of what they devour, after the manner of hawks. He believes, he told me, that there were bushels of this kind of substance.”

“Smallest of the British owls, the Little Owl is only 22 cm from head to tail, which is less than a centimetre larger than a Starling. ... Although Little Owls may be seen during the day, most of their hunting takes place at dusk or the few hours after dark and again around dawn. They will catch small mammals and sometimes birds, but most of their food is insects and earthworms.”