Hens Quotes

90 quotes by 85 authors

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming… — Henry David Thoreau
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of… — Richard Sibbes
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of… — William J. Clinton
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,… — George Mason
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
I've been called other things too, and some of them uncomplimentary and sexist like the 'Queen of Sprawl', 'Attila the Hen,' 'The Mom who runs… — Hazel McCallion
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing… — David Attenborough
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce
The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods. — Steven Tyler
If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen! — Carol Ryrie Brink
It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it. — C. J. Dennis
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien
A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be. — Chinua Achebe
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
You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster? — William Carlos Williams

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