Bird Specimens

Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or specimens:

    Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don’t notice whether it’s passing quickly or slowly.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)