Mrs Mallard Quotes

#1. She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.
'What's the trouble?'
'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.'
'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it.

John Mortimer

#2. A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Samuel Johnson

#3. I wouldn't do that. You don't have to accept it." He pauses. "But maybe you should hate the people responsible. Because it's not you.

Courtney Summers

#4. I hurt myself today to see if I could feel. I hurt myself, you said to try to make him feel. So I hurt myself again to see if he'd see me. I hurt myself again and no, he never could see me.

Tori Amos

#5. Such avian silence is punctuated only by the occasional plunk of a trout sinking an ovipositioning daddy longlegs, and the hysterical cackle of a Mallard that finally gets last night's joke.

Bruce Beckham

#6. Funny thing, how people keep fighting about religion, when really it's all the same. Seems to me it's the priests who make all the problems; most folks just want good harvests and healthy babies, just trying to get along. If it's not the cattle stampeding, it's the priests haranguing the crowds.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#7. My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Ted Nugent

#8. A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

David Letterman

#9. Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

Ted Nugent

#10. The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

#11. I believe in holistic medicine, yoga, Pilates and so on. But I also believe in banana split sundaes once in a while.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#12. [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

Isaac Asimov

#13. It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.

Shawn Amos

#15. There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.

Ella Baker

#16. Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.

Bruce Lee

#17. In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions.

Ray Stannard Baker

#18. Man sees what he knows, not what he sees

Short story, The Mallard

S.L. Northey