Pheasants Quotes

• See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
  And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
  Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
  Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Blood, Wings

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.33

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• The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

  Pliny the Elder

  Two, Ears, Hens

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• The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Wall, Cat, Animal

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• Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Autumn, Nuts

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• Fresh October brings the pheasant,
  Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

  Sara Coleridge

  Nuts, October, Pleasant

  "Pretty Lessons in Verse, for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme".

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• As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.105, Xist Publishing

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• To prepare for a race there is nothing better than a good pheasant, some champagne and a woman.

  Jacques Anquetil

  Cycling, Race, Champagne

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• And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

  Stephen King

  Uncles, Heart, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.201, Anchor

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• The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Sweet, Party

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.408, Xist Publishing

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• The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'.

  Brigid Brophy

  Fun, Butterfly, May

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• It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

  Allen Sapp

  Country, Feel Good, Patriotism

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• I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper. I was a taxidermist.

  Gene Pitney

  Basketball, Football, Kids

  "Life after Tulsa". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2003.

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• In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.

  Frederick Marryat

  Dream, Lying, Home

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• The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, House, Want

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: with illustrations by Rebecca Ashdown”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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