Hens Quotes

• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Crow, May

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

  Coco Chanel

  Eggs, Done, Happens

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• The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

  Steven Tyler

  Crow, May, Goods

  "'American Idol' Recap: Jessica Sanchez Catches 'Biggest Fish' of the Night" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

  Delia Smith

  Art, Food, Eggs

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• When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Mother, Children, Luxury

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

  Aeschylus

  Boast

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Giving, Your Smile

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• It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

  Jim Hightower

  Wisdom, Roosters, Doe

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• An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eggs, Morrow

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.276, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Men, Roosters, Farmers

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• I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Cat, Garden

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• There are days when I am envious of my hens:
  when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
  as a single daily egg.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Eggs, Perfect

  Barbara Kingsolver, “Apotheosis”

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• If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Bird, Political, Advice

  "The last word on compromise" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

  George M. Humphrey

  Morning, Fog, Lunch

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• There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Two, Justice

  A Book of Nonsense (1846)

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eggs, Long, Justice

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• It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

  Warren E. Burger

  Giving, Advice, House

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Turkeys, Ducks

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• Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments, should be running about like blind hens, ignorant of our own self and of the depth within us?

  Johannes Tauler

  Self, Ignorant, Depth

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