Cuckoos Quotes

• The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Spring, Long

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• O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

  William Wordsworth

  Voice, Bird, Blithe

  'To the Cuckoo' (O blithe new-comer!, 1807)

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• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Spring, Years

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.

  Daniel Handler

  Fool

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

  Edmund Spenser

  Spring, Messengers, Trumpets

  Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.38

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• The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Asceticism, Ugly

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• The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spring, Pieces, Clockwork

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• There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Earth, Immunity

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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• The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

  Wilson Mizner

  Bird, Cuckoo Clocks, Halfway

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• Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.

  Lokendra Singh

  Voice, People, Crow

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• The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

  William Wordsworth

  Firsts, Cry, Melancholy

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.174

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• I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations.

  Marc Faber

  Thinking, Land, Groups

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• Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Clouds, Land

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• What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.

  Ken Kesey

  Crazy, Thinking, Average

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• You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

  Ken Kesey

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.123, Hamilton Books

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• But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Mcmurphy, History

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

  Thomas Nashe

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Home, Writing

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

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• The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

  Bob Brown

  Clouds, Government, Land

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• Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;
  Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
  Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing.
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

  Thomas Nash

  Sweet, Kings, Spring

  Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

  Ken Kesey

  Truth, Thinking, Long

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Harmony, Notes

  'Ode on the Spring' (1748) l. 5

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• Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

  Alan Coren

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.184, Canongate Books

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