Hen Quotes

94 quotes by 88 authors

Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the… — Edgar Wilson Nye
If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it… — Leo Burnett
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day. — Ray Charles
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. — Nikita Khrushchev
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a… — Edward Lear
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. — H. L. Mencken
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. — Mark Twain
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. — Charles Spurgeon
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, itâ€™s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. — Julia Quinn
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. — Malcolm X
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. — Julia Quinn
I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I… — Shel Silverstein
When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners. — James St. James
Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! — Harper Lee
Say something in Mandarin,â€ said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his… — Cassandra Clare
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've… — Maureen Johnson

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