Top 11 Gulls Quotes - Quoted Daily

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

Achievement, Vision, Gulls

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Richard Bach

Flying, Gulls, Matter

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

Richard Bach

Law, Gulls, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

Richard Bach

Flying, Gulls, Facts

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Giacomo Casanova

Witty, Men, Gulls

Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

Richard Bach

Perfection, Gulls, Sake

Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

William Shakespeare

Intelligence, Gulls, Ghost

Sonnet 86

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Knavery, Gulls, Knaves

blind wantons like the gulls who scream And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.

Louis MacNeice

Dream, Rip, Gulls

Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.42, Faber & Faber

One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent.

Wallace Stevens

Challenges, Crow, Gulls

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.233, Vintage