“When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.”

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 159.

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Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“You know, one of these days, I'm actually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.”

John Avlon (1973) American journalist

The Ugly Party vs. the Grown-Up Party, June 30th, 2010, The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903841.html,

“Quoint a quincidence! O. K. Omnius Kollidimus. As Ollover Krumwall sayed when he slepped ueber his grannyamother. Kangaroose feathers. Who in the name of thunder'd ever belevin you were that bolt?”

James Joyce book Finnegans Wake

Source: Finnegans Wake (1939), p. 299

“… if you saw a baby tyrannosaur you would probably think it was a weird looking bird. A full grown one might have had feathers too, maybe not on its whole body though, maybe more of an ornamental display sort of feathers. So traits in the theropod dinosaurs were more birdlike than say, crocodiles.”

Mark Norell (1957) American paleontologist

As quoted in "How Dinosaurs Loved: An Interview with Dr. Mark Norell on Dino Relations" http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/t-rexxx-how-dinosaurs-lived-loved-and-tasted-q-a-with-dr-mark-norell-american-museum-of-natural-history, Vice (March 20, 2012)

“This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.”

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) English children's writer and illustrator

“If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say "Canary!" — he'll take offense.”

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