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No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. — Karl Popper

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make. — Bonnie Raitt

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful. — Philip Massinger

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. — Heinrich Heine

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert

Swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. — Jan Struther

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. — Connie Willis

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. — Kenneth Clark

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. — Robinson Jeffers

Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity. — Henry Noel Brailsford

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. — Michael Gira

No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it. — Karl Popper

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow. — Sathya Sai Baba

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep. — James Elroy Flecker

Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth. — Rainn Wilson

I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans? — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon. — Thomas Hood

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

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat. — Dr. Seuss

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice. — Jim Crumley

The clouds, warm now, sun-spotted, sweep over the hills, leaving gold in the water, and gold on the necks of the swans. — Virginia Woolf

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit. — Connie Willis

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans ... because I can still feel that affinity. — Jean Sibelius

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans. — Irene Nemirovsky

Every man thinks his own geese swans. — Charles Dickens

Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind. — Wallace Stevens

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My mother is part albino. Bella Swan — Stephenie Meyer

The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life.
I wish they could talk. I have questions. — Suzanne Finnamore

Ceri loves Sci-Fi - " Game of Thrones "
also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana, — Jo Nesbo

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

Swans sing before they die - 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases. — Chanakya

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow. — Jean Rhys

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were
To see thee in our water yet appear. — Ben Jonson

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans. — Munia Khan

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. — Quentin Crisp

To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans — Zoe Marriott

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God. — Epictetus

Get my swan costume ready. — Anna Pavlova

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan. — Nora Ephron

Sweet meat must have sour sauce. — Ben Jonson

The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.'" He — Charlie Carillo

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. — Juvenal

O woman shapely as a swan. — Padraic Colum

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives. — Maeve Binchy

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth

If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. — David Mitchell

I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it's sharp as a nun on her second sherry. — Ken Bruen

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. — Van Wyck Brooks

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Swans in the winter air
A white perfection have — W. H. Auden

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. — Wilkie Collins

In Virginia... all geese are swans. — John Adams

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. — James Russell Lowell

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. — Walter De La Mare

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested. — Sudha Murty

my antidote to Black Swans is precisely to be noncommoditized in my thinking. But — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. — Martial

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. — Juvenal

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! — Hans Christian Andersen

When turkeys mate they think of swans. — Johnny Carson

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. — Bill Bailey