Hens Quotes

90 quotes by 85 authors

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. — George M. Humphrey
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.… — Calvin Coolidge
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind… — H. L. Mencken
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the… — Ezra Pound
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of… — B. C. Forbes
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of… — Charles Gavan Duffy
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods. — Jim Hightower
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling… — Warren E. Burger
hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚ out of the… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious… — Julia Quinn
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the… — Charles Darwin
The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be… — Hal Porter
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs. — Armando Iannucci
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film,… — Diane Lane
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey… — Alice B. Toklas
I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing… — Louis L'Amour
An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow. — Benjamin Franklin
Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate… — Anne Bishop

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