Quotes

The corax tongue is difficult to understand. Not so much because it is made up of strange noises, caws, and squalks, but because it relies heavily on quotes. Have you ever shared in-jokes with your friends, and needed merely to repeat a small part of a phrase in order to have everyone know what you meant, and start laughing? Well, the corax tongue is a lot like that, but with a wide range of quotes, and an instinctive understanding of the 'in-jokes' behind them (and really, everything is a joke if you think about it).

Here's a few quotes which you might want to work into your corax vocabulary:

• "If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows" - Henry Ward Beecher (mid 1800's)

• "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" - Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"

• "Quoth the Raven - Eat my Shorts!" - Bart Simpson

• "Birds of a feather flock together." (and other fowl cliches)

• "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, for for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret, never to be told." - old children's rhyme for counting crows.

• "I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure." (sorry - gratuitous 'Aliens' quote. Don't know how it got in here.)

• "It can't rain all the time." - from 'The Crow'

• "Hate is like Nitro when you are stark raving mad." - lyric from ShockerDance by Dudes of Wrath (submitted by Jaden1)

• "As you wish. . ." - from The Princess Bride

• "I will hug him, and squeeze him, and call him George." - from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. You'd have to see it...

• "Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines." - unknown

• "Will you walk into my parlor?"
  Said the Spider to the Fly;
  "Tis the prettiest little parlor
  That ever you did spy;
  The way into my parlor
  Is up a wnding stair,
  And I have many curious things
  To show when you are there."
  "Oh, no, no" said the little Fly;
  "To ask me is in vain;
  For who goes up your winding stair
  Can ne'er come down again."
  

  by Mary Howitt     (submitted by joel_cyr)

• "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor

• "Stare. It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." - Walker Evans

• "Well, when the wolves fall out, don't they say that the ravens come into their own?" - said by Merlin in The Crystal Cave (submitted by McNamara)

• "Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much" -- Oscar Wilde (submitted by Karl Wilding)

• "Information is the currency of democracy." -Thomas Jefferson (submitted by Jane Doe)

• "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't." - unknown

• "I don't care what the world knows about me, but I hope my mother never finds out." - Ashleigh Brilliant

• "The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day" - Voltaire

• "Skeleton (n): A bunch of bones with the person pecked off." - submitted by RavenBlack

• "Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?" - Dan Fielding (submitted by The Grey Zealot)

• "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz (submitted by The Grey Zealot)

• "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Somerset Maugham (submitted by The Grey Zealot)

Feel free to email me if you know of more that should be up here. And they don't have to be directly related to ravens or crows, either - anything eminantly quotable is good.