Ducks Quotes

• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

  Michael Caine

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Bad Day

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• The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

  Bill Cosby

  Secret, Paddling, Smooth

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• If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

  Robin Cook

  Looks, Quacks, Ifs

  Robin Cook (2011). “Crisis”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Running, Water, Criticism

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• Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

  Oscar Wilde

  Numbers, Overhead, Wet

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• I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

  Fred Shero

  Water, Training, Paddling

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• I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

  Maeve Binchy

  Writing, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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• How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Fleeting, Humans

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Tails, Wind In The Willows, Tall

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

  George Foreman

  Positive, Fighting, Mma

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• Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Migration

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

  Douglas Adams

  Family, Integrity, Patriotic

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

  Maeve Binchy

  Beautiful, Thinking, Swans

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• My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.

  Jinkx Monsoon

  Positive Thinking, Water, Negativity

  Source: fierth.com

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• An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Optimism, Quacks, Figures

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• Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

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• She smiled smugly. “We came to an agreement, the duck and I.

  Cassandra Clare

  Agreement

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• Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

  Chubby Checker

  Dancing, Sticks

  Song: The Hucklebuck

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Effort, Merit

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

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• Was that you or the duck?

  Groucho Marx

  "Fictional character: Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff". "Horse Feathers", 1932.

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Turkeys, Cooking

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• What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

  J. K. Rowling

  Exactly Is, Muggles, Rubber

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• Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

  William Allingham

  Spring, Sky, Wings

  'A Memory'

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• If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Swimming, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.143, Delphi Classics

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