Hens Quotes · Page 4

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen…

— Malcolm X

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when…

— Glenn Reynolds

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

— Steven Tyler

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

— George Herbert

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never…

— Winifred Holtby

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

— Jim Hightower

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

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended…

— Thomas Jefferson

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are…

— Rajneesh

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

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

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

— James St. James

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

— Marian Keyes

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

Is it not shameful and a great scandal that we poor latecomers, we Christians, aided by grace, the Faith, and the sacraments,…

— Johannes Tauler

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

The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without…

— Charles Gavan Duffy

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked…

— George Orwell

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

— Fisher Ames

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

— Chinua Achebe

I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was…

— Shel Silverstein

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay…

— Pliny the Elder