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.
QuotaBillsA married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly. - Dutch Proverb
When turkeys mate they think of swans. - Johnny Carson
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. - Dejan Stojanovic
Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno
A rich man is never ugly in the eyes of a girl. - French Proverb
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin
Ego: the fallacy whereby a goose thinks he's a swan. - Oscar Levant
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich
If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev
She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin. - Will Rogers
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry
Never pick a fight with ugly people - they've got nothing to lose. - Robin Williams
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
Oh, when I was a kid, I was ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother. - Rodney Dangerfield
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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
I was such an ugly kid. When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. - Rodney Dangerfield
Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan
No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful. - Munia Khan
An ugly baby is a very nasty object, and the prettiest is frightful when undressed. - Queen Victoria
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. - Muhammad Ali
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Aldous Huxley
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings
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
We could not understand that there was anything about a bird that could not be built on a larger scale. - Orville Wright
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent
You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge