Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said,… — Delia Smith Copy Share Image
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them. — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves… A writer… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Boy and Egg Every few minutes, he wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass back to the house of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended… — Thomas Jefferson 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
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen? — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it… — Frances Power Cobbe 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
“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.” — John Steinbeck 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
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel 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
“There is a soughing in the beech trees and the ash, and the small music of the hens.” — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image