cock quotes

   Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

- Richard pseudonym of  Edward Godfree Aldington
The Colonel's Daughter, pt.1, ch.6.

The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide.

-Ballads
'The Wife of Usher's Well'.

Our cock won't fight.

-Baron
  Of Edward VIII. Comment to Winston Churchill during the abdication crisis. Quoted in Francis Donaldson Edward VIII (1974).

Jesus said unto him,Verily I say unto thee,That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him,Though Ishould die with thee yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 26:34^5.

And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how hehad said unto him,Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 22:61.

   We are na fou, we're nae that fou, But just a drappie in our e'e; The cock may craw, the day may daw, And ay we'll taste the barley bree.

- Robert Burns
  'Willie brew'd a peck o' maut', chorus.

My old man said,'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked behind with my old cock linnet. But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam. You can't trust the'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

- Charles Collins
  'Don't Dilly-Dally on the Way' (with Fred Leigh).

He was likea cock who thoughtthesun had risento hear him crow.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Adam Bede, ch.33.

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

-Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.13^20.

   While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before. 576

-John Milton
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.49^52.

Crito, we oughtto offera cock to Asclepius. Seetoit, and don't forget.

-Plato
Phaedo,118a (translated by H Tredennick).

'd!'said my mother,'what is all this storyabout?''A Cock and a Bull,'said Yorick.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.9, ch.33.

She understood how much louder a cockcan crow in its own farmyard then elsewhere.

- Anthony Trollope
  The Last Chronicle of Barset, ch.17.