| 1916 - 690 páginas
...AUTHOR WANTED. — Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me who wrote the following lines ? — A wise old owl lived in an oak ; The more he saw, the leas he spoke ; The lees he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird? CECIL CLARKE.... | |
| American Road Builders' Association - 1912 - 1290 páginas
...Mr. Frank D. Lyon, Second Deputy, New York State Commission of Highways, will say to you. MR. LYON: "A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the...less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; I thought I could be somewhat like this wise old bird." I had not expected that I would be called upon... | |
| R. H. Andrews - 1916 - 454 páginas
...not — or was not, as wise as the owl : "There was an owl that lived in an oak, the more he heard the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard — O, if men were all like this wise bird." I think it was Epectetus, who flourished during the first... | |
| 1923 - 1012 páginas
...that hangs over the fireplace in the Coolidge home in Northampton, Mass. The legend reads; "A Avise old owl lived in an oak: The more he saw, the less...spoke the more he heard. Why can't we be like that old bird? " Silent and a half-mysterious individual, the former Governor of Massachusetts gives even... | |
| 1916 - 794 páginas
...women. I understand that so far as men are concerned at this convention they'adopted the following rule: A wise old owl lived In an oak. The more he saw the...spoke the more he heard, Why can't we be like that old bird? The men In this convention I notice stand solidly together. Not that there Is anything they... | |
| 1919 - 826 páginas
...'Nursery Rhymes New Set for the Times," the stanza: There was an owl lived in an oak, The more he heard the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard-- O, if mm were all like that wise bird. Do Right. Do right though pain and anguish be thy lot; Thy heart... | |
| 1904 - 390 páginas
...ministry in the Bulfinch Place Church. A Wise Old Owl "A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he heard the less he spoke, The less he spoke the more he heard. Whv aren't we all more like that bird?" Do and Say Two brothers once lived down this way. And one was... | |
| Albert Shaw - 1920 - 998 páginas
...Grace Goodhue, called irresistibly away from her vocation to become his bride, lighted the home fire: A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the...spoke the more he heard; Why can't we be like that old bird? Calvin Coolidge is. Because he has never been a "joiner," though regular in church attendance,... | |
| 1909 - 466 páginas
...in a drug journal with which you are all familiar. A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he heard, the less he spoke — The less he spoke, the more he heard Why aren't we more like that old bird? However, when a man has been successful in nearly everything he... | |
| 1910 - 832 páginas
...committed to memory by every nurse and doctor: ''A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he looked, the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard. Let's imitate this wise old bird." I would say much more and take up a great deal more time, but when... | |
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