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"A Wise Old Owl" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7734 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes , 2nd Ed. of 1997, as number 394. The rhyme is an improvement of a traditional nursery rhyme "There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle."
A Wise Old Owl 'There was an owl lived in an oak, wisky, wasky, weedle.' United Kingdom 1875 [11] First published in Punch on April 10, 1875. A-Tisket, A-Tasket: United States 1879 [12] Originally noted in 1879 as a children's rhyming game. A-Hunting We Will Go: Great Britain: 1777 [13] Composed in 1777 by English composer Thomas Arne. Akai Kutsu
Wide-Eye is a British 2003–04 animated children's television series set in fictional Natterjack Forest. The series consists of a series of ten-minute episodes and is about a wise, old owl who lives in a tall tree with his young son, "Little Hoot", and his energetic female sidekick, "Flea".
Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [15] Love makes the world go around
A wise old owl tells him that brownies do not really exist and the only real brownies are good little children who do chores without being asked. [69] [74] The boy goes home and convinces his younger brother to join him in becoming the new household "brownies". [69] Ewing's short story inspired the idea of calling helpful children "brownies".
Between blessings, sayings, toasts and proverbs, the Irish clearly know a thing or two about catchy, humorous, encouraging and wise statements. And what's more—they are incredibly proud of being ...
Norwegian epidemiologists used military records to examine the birth order, health status, and IQ scores of nearly 250,000 18- and 19-year-old men born between 1967 and 1976.
Zok (short for Zocrates), a wise old owl wearing a toga and a laurel wreath. Zok is a fatherly figure and advisor to the Bluffers (i.e., the animal denizens of the last remaining forest in Bluffoonia), and the keeper of the encyclopedic Book of All Knowledge. His name is a take-off of Socrates (hence his Roman Emperor appearance).