Quacks Like A Duck Quotes & Sayings

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness. — Robert Breault

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. — Gertrude Stein

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. — Douglas Adams

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team. — Ian B.G. Burns

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer. — Suraj Sharma

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth. — Jeet Aulakh

Gundar seemed to come to a decision.
"Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck."
"Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?"
Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So ... "
"So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said.
Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck. — John Flanagan

The coffee's done? I LOVE IT WHEN THE COFFEE'S DONE! — Craig Benzine

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.' — Serj Tankian

That's the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk. — C.C. Hunter

What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think. — Echo Bodine

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'? — Alex Duval

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. — Hermann Hesse

A massive and brilliant accomplishment
the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it. — Donna Jo Napoli

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. — James Whitcomb Riley

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom. — Robert Leland Taylor

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck! — Robin Cook

Lyrics are tough for me and I never feel like they're quite done. — Stacey King

Round about the cauldron go; In the poison'd entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Swelter'd venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i' the charmed pot. — William Shakespeare

That everything in nature has "the appearance" of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is almost certainly something else. — Paul Greene