Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
When someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others… — Charlotte Knobloch Copy Share Image
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. — George M. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
[W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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