Quotes

The Corax tongue is difficult to understand. Not so much because it is made up of strange noises, caws, and squalks, but because it relies heavily on quotes. Have you ever shared in-jokes with your friends, and needed merely to repeat a small part of a phrase in order to have everyone know what you meant, and start laughing? Well, the Corax tongue is a lot like that, but with a wide range of quotes, and an instinctive understanding of the 'in-jokes' behind them (and really, everything is a joke if you think about it).

Here's a few quotes which you might want to work into your Corax vocabulary:

·        "If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows" - Henry Ward Beecher (mid 1800's)

·        "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" - Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"

·        "Quoth the Raven - Eat my Shorts!" - Bart Simpson

·        "Birds of a feather flock together." (and other fowl clichés)

·        "One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret, never to be told." - Old children's rhyme for counting crows.

·        "I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure." (Sorry - gratuitous 'Aliens' quote. Don't know how it got in here.)

·        "It can't rain all the time." - from 'The Crow'

·        "Hate is like Nitro when you are stark raving mad." - lyric from ShockerDance by Dudes of Wrath

·        "As you wish. . ." - from The Princess Bride

·        "I will hug him, and squeeze him, and call him George." - From a Bugs Bunny cartoon. You'd have to see it...

·        "Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines." - unknown

·        "Will you walk into my parlor?"
Said the Spider to the Fly;
"Tis the prettiest little parlor
that ever you did spy;
the way into my parlor
is up a winding stair
and I have many curious things
to show when you are there."
"Oh, no, no" said the little Fly;
"To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again."

·        "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor

·        "Stare. It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." - Walker Evans

·        "Well, when the wolves fall out, don't they say that the ravens come into their own?" - said by Merlin in The Crystal Cave

·        "Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much" -- Oscar Wilde

·        "Information is the currency of democracy." -Thomas Jefferson 

·    "Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't." - unknown

·        "I don't care what the world knows about me, but I hope my mother never finds out." - Ashleigh Brilliant

·        "The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day" - Voltaire

·        "Skeleton (n): A bunch of bones with the person pecked off."

·        "Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?" - Dan Fielding 

·        "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz

·        "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Somerset Maugham

    Feel free to email me if you know of more that should be up here. And they don't have to be directly related to ravens or crows either - anything eminently quotable is good.