58+ Best Owl Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Owl is a bird with a flat face and large eyes that hunts small mammals at night. Profoundly inspirational owl quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Owl Quotes

There’s always a hidden owl in knowledge E.I. Jane

The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing? M.J. Rose

Owl is the grand and rather clever old man of the forest. He can also spell Tuesday. A. A. Milne

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the less it talks. Christie Watson

Do not trap yourself into an owl’s hooting sound where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound. Munia Khan

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits. William Shakespeare

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious! Mehmet Murat İldan

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend! Mehmet Murat Ildan

A wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can’t we be like that wise old bird? Edward Hersey Richards

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms. Steve Carell , Night owl quotes

Those who drink whiskey with the owls at night, cannot soar with the eagles the next day. Brian D. Ratty

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon. David Mallet

People say the darkness is where secrets are best hidden. Night time brings clarity and focus to owls, even if the aperture of this vision comes with a stigma. Kimberly Morgan

The owls are gathering; find out why soon. J. K. Rowling

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits. Alfred Lord Tennyson

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn’t hear it I breathed it into my ears. William Stafford

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy come easy go. T.H. White

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl’s eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves. Patricia A. McKillip

An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks. Christie Watson

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. Alan Garner

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. Plutarch

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you’re changing into a hundred other things, but you can’t let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he’s a rabbit, or a mouse while he’s still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he’s a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It’s harder than it sounds. Catherynne M. Valente

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders at our quaint spirits. William Shakespeare

When a person hasn’t in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog’s bark in every sound. Anton Chekhov

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend! Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the enemy’s territory, be as silent as the owl’s wings; in friend’s territory, be as cheerful as the nightingale’s songs. Mehmet Murat Ildan

The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees. Theodore Roosevelt

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle. Pablo Picasso

Don’t count your owls before they are delivered. J. K. Rowling

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise  which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass. Ronald Reagan

Owl hasn’t exactly got Brain, but he knows things. A. A. Milne

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquility; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists! Mehmet Murat Ildan

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. Alan Garner

Other sound than the owl’s voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again. Charles Dickens

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, is that portentous phrase, ‘I told you so. Lord Byron

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. Patrick Rothfuss

Then lady Cynthia goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. Edward Young

There was an old man with a beard, who said: ‘It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard. Edward Lear

The large white owl that with eye is blind, that hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, is carried away in a gust of wind. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena’s owl of wisdom and Merlin’s companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind. Mary Oliver , Owl quotes wisdom

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. Patrick Rothfuss

She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl’s wings and talons and became other than conscious. John Crowley

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let’s emulate that wise old bird. Flann O’Brien

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloomin’ owl. Ernest Hemingway

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let’s emulate that wise old bird. Flann O’Brien

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner. Terry Goodkind

I’m a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. Josh Fox

I’m a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. Josh Fox

Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don’t anymore. I think it’s a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there’s nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. Lots of little deaths until the last big one. Neil Gaiman

If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am. Dean Ambrose

The owl, that bird of onomatopoeic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for Winter delivery. Hal Borland

When the silent flamingo dances pink with desire, I’ll be there, sipping on owl stares and kitten curls. Jarod Kintz

Then what shall I write? I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing. David Almond

The owl, that bird of onomatopoetic name, is a repetitious question wrapped in feathery insulation especially for winter delivery. Hal Borland

we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kIf ind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business. Henry David Thoreau

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. Victor Hugo.