Crows

thumb|right|A carrion crow scavenging on a beach in Dorset, England. Crows are birds of the genus Corvus, or more broadly a synonym for all of Corvus. The term "crow" is used as part of the common name of many species. Quotes It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive. Antisthenes, from Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius§ 4. Crows are the central bird in many mythologies. The crow is at every extreme, lives on every piece of land on earth, the most intelligent bird. Ted Hughes, interviewed by Drue Heinz in "Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71" in The Paris Review No. 134 (Spring 1995). Even the blackest of them all, the crow,Renders good service as your man-at-arms,Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail.And crying havoc on the slug and snail. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), The Poet's Tale, Birds of Killingworth, Stanza 19. "As the crow flies"—a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. William Henry Maule, J., Stokes v. Grissell (1854), 23 L. J. Rep. Part 7 (N. S.), Com. PL 144. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 5, line 50. Light thickens; and the crowMakes wing to the rooky wood. William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 49. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the larkWhen neither is attended. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act V, scene 1, line 102. As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. Alfred Tennyson, Locksley Hall (1835; 1842), Stanza 34. If you do not protect your own honor, the crows will peck at your flesh. Uyghur proverb, as quoted in "Amsterdam’s Lonely Uyghur vs Uyghur Restaurants–Or in Favor of Them?" by Abdurehim Gheni, Bitter Winter (February 11, 2026) To shoot at crows is powder flung away. John Gay, Epistle IV, Last line; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 152. Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room. Gesta Romanorum, Tale XLV; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 152. External links Category:Birds