crow quotes

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

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

I will go stark: and let my meanings show Clear as a milk-white feather in a crow Or a black stallion on a field of snow.

- (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie Campbell
  'A Good Resolution'.

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

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

For there isanupstartcrow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Iohannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

- Robert Greene
  Of Shakespeare. The Groatsworth of  Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance. Iohannes fac totum = 'Jack-of-all-trades'.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the old crow loves his fledglings, and the ape his cubs.

- SirThomas More
  Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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

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