 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 588 pages
...Rhymes new set for the Times.' The lines were these : — There was an owl liv'd in an oak. The more ho heard, the less he spoke ; The less he spoke, the more he heard — O, if men were all like that wise bird ! The initial letter was a large owl, the T being a piece... | |
 | R. H. Andrews - Medicine - 1916 - 454 pages
...commendable and wise listener I am 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1923 - 1012 pages
...Coolidge home in Northampton, Mass. The legend reads; "A Avise old owl lived in an oak: The more he saw, the less he spoke, The less he 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 the most... | |
 | Commercial law - 1916 - 794 pages
...at this convention they'adopted the following rule: A wise old owl lived In an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke: The less he 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 know that... | |
 | Education - 1919 - 826 pages
...London Punch many years ago headed '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 pages
...We do not forget that Mr. Shurtleff began his ministry in the Bulfinch Place Church. A Wise Old Owl "A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he heard...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... | |
 | Hans Herman Behr - American wit and humor - 1904 - 256 pages
...of my bill, I am a bird of few words; as the immortal poet Bromley sings: " ' 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. Oh, let us be like this wise bird.' " But I keep my watchful eye on you every night; in daytime better... | |
 | Natural history - 1917 - 468 pages
...given in some later number. RUSSELL R. LORD Battery C, Maryland Field Artillery A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he heard the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that bird? — Old Song. True, very true; but have you heard About the oak on which the... | |
 | Albert Shaw - World politics - 1920 - 998 pages
...vocation to become his bride, lighted the home fire: A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he 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, he is... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1909 - 466 pages
...so blind, to take her fore and leave I hind; For her can surely go to we but us can never go to she! A Wise Old Owl lived in an oak; the more he heard,...he spoke; the less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we more like that old bird? MO, PH, A. The New Qame Law for Missouri has been published in pamphlet... | |
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A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that wise old bird? 
