It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
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Aulularia, Act iv, sc. 3, 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Referenced in "That raven on yon left-hand oak/(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)/Bodes me no good", John Gay, ''Fables, Part I, The Farmer’s Wife and the Raven.Plautus
BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.
Thomas (writer) Dekker
That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.John Gay
The raven is the bird of all the gods. It was the bird of Odin and the bird of Jesus Christ. It will also be the bird of the god Skandilán, who has yet to be born. Whomever the raven rends attains salvation.
Halldor Laxness
"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore —
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Edgar Allan Poe
If the left half of the brain controls the right hand, and the right half the left, then left-handed people are the only ones in their right minds.
Anonymous
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