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title: "6 Like Hen Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/we-are-constituted-a-good-deal-like-chickens-which-taken-from-the-hen/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed9/henry-david-thoreau-20_baskets_we-are-constituted-a-good-deal-like-chic_60123.jpg)

> [“her mind was still picking away like a hen at a patch of plain dirt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-carey/her-mind-was-still-picking-away-like-a-hen-at-a-patch-of-plain-dirt/)

[Ella Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ella-carey/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/574/ella-carey-101351_dirt_her-mind-was-still-picking-away-like-a-h_118732.jpg)

> [Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/money-is-for-doing-things-my-love-don-t-sit-on-it-like-a-hen-sits-on/)

[Maureen Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-johnson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e18/maureen-johnson-1282_doing-things_money-is-for-doing-things-my-love-don-t_674436.png)

> [Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pio-of-pietrelcina/why-fly-like-a-hen-when-you-can-soar-like-an-eagle/)

[Pio of Pietrelcina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pio-of-pietrelcina/)

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> [Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agatha-christie/mr-jesmond-made-a-peculiar-noise-rather-like-a-hen-who-has-decided-to/)

[Agatha Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agatha-christie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/946/agatha-christie-154_chicken_mr-jesmond-made-a-peculiar-noise-rather_2575779.jpg)

> [Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-ward-beecher/do-not-give-as-many-rich-men-do-like-a-hen-that-lays-her-eggs-and/)

[Henry Ward Beecher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-ward-beecher/)

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