John Gould Quotes

• Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.

  John Gould

  Book, Sky, Two

  John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

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• A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

  John Gould

  Benefits, Lectures, Numb

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• El primer calabacín que vi lo maté con una azada.

  John Gould

  Food, Zucchini, Hoe

  John Gould (1963). “Monstrous Depravity: A Jeremiad and a Lamentation [about Things to Eat]”

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Food, Thinking

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• What I love about the currawongs is the way in which they appear from nowhere and, for a brief period, rule the garden's soundscape, only to disappear as quickly as they arrived.

  John Gould

  Nature, Garden, Way

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• Ya no leo nada. No tengo vista. Leo mi propia copia, eso es todo. Creo que he leído todo lo que vale la pena leer.

  John Gould

  Reading, Thinking, Sight

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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Mudanza, Lazos, Personas

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• Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

  John Gould

  Laughter, Book, Talking

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