I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
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Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.
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Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well
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Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip
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Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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