Quotes
Quotes about Swans
All our geese are swans.
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans and swans are geese!
And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.
They were swans, but like the swans that sailed in the barge's wake, greedy and cold-eyed
Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?
I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring, So screams a goose where swans melodious sing.
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
All our geese are swans.
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die.
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
