Ugly Chicklings
Good thing that ugly is only skin deep
“The Ugly Duckling” - Hans Christian Andersen
A little duckling was very sad because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They would not play with him and teased the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection in the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I am so ugly.” He decided to leave home and went far away into the woods.
Deep in the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old woman, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for some time but he was unhappy there and soon left. When winter set in the poor duckling almost froze to death. A peasant took him home to his wife and children. The poor duckling was terrified of the children and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a marshy pond.
Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a beautiful swan swimming in the pond and fell in love with her. But then he remembered how everyone made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. When he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonished. He was not an ugly duckling anymore, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I was a baby swan!” he said to himself.
He married the beautiful swan and lived happily ever after.
QuotaBillsAll our geese are swans. - Robert Burton
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly. - Dutch Proverb
Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. - Jean Anouilh
I want to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
When turkeys mate they think of swans. - Johnny Carson
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive. - Coco Chanel
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy
Wishing to be a bird so you can Fly Away. - Unknown
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic
The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Unknown
A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl. - French Proverb
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin. - Will Rogers
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright
Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore
With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite. - Mehmet M Ildan
I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. - Steven Wright
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller
The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin
I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best
Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan
An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed. - Queen Victoria
Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer
What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside? - Jess C Scott
German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton
Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie
Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is a last year's nest from which the birds have flown. - Henry Ward Beecher
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right, and making all crime mean and ugly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ugly animals have it rough. We're more likely to eat them or let them go extinct, and less likely to adopt them from animal shelters. - Joshua A Krisch
Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton
We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. - George Carlin