Death Quote by Armando Iannucci

Death laid its eggs in the wound

— Anonymous

“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I have never before gathered eggs from under a hen. Fernando has never before seen a hen. We bend low into the shed where…

— Marlena de Blasi

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

— Henry David Thoreau

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

— Ambrose Bierce

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

— Robin Morgan

“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of…

— William James

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

— Fisher Ames

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what…

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Samuel Butler

“Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.”

— John Steinbeck

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

— Navjot Singh Sidhu