Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish — Chevy Chase
Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot — Mark Twain
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist. — Thomas Carlyle
If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeet…oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool. — Anthony Jeselnik
Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone. — Karl Pilkington
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. — Mark Twain
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot. — Erik Spiekermann
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes
Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards. — Mitch Hedberg
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. — Tommy Douglas
I'm going back to my parrot head friends. — Jimmy Buffett
Short Parrot Quotes
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. — Will Rogers
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip. — Billy Graham
Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are. — Voltaire
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons
I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it. — Brion James
I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! — Michael Landon
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber. — Winston Churchill
You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot. — Angie Sage
I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say "I'm hungry", and so it died. — Mitch Hedberg
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. — Marie Corelli
I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying. — Derren Brown
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar. — Rumi
If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness. — Martin Luther
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. — Sakya Pandita
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. — Saskya Pandita
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated. — Jerome Bruner
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. — Joseph Conrad
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot. — Graham Chapman
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. — Steve Irwin
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. — Steve Irwin
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots. — Robert Anton Wilson
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living. — Fanny Fern
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. — Carl Jung
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be! — William Morris Hunt
I think my wife is cheating on me, the only thing the parrot knows how to say is, quick out the window. — Rodney Dangerfield
We're herded into schools and terrified into behaving. Taught how we're supposed to pretend to be, taught to parrot all kinds of nonsense at the flick of a switch, taught to keep our heads down and our elbows in and shut off our minds and shut off our sex. We learn we can't even piss when we have to. That's how we learn to be plastic and dumb. — Marge Piercy
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand." — Thomas Carlyle
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties. — Ezra Taft Benson
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