Orlando Gibbons quotes

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
-- Orlando Gibbons

#Swans #Bird #Silver

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'
-- Orlando Gibbons

#Wise #Farewell #Eye

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
-- Orlando Gibbons

#Proportion #Music Is #Universe

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

We were really sick of silver ...