Hens Quotes

90 Hens quotes by 85 unique authors

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
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It… — Lady Gregory
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
I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start… — Susan Orlean
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
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens… — Katherine Dunn
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
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this… — Clarice Lispector
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly… — Aravind Adiga
Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. — Julia Quinn
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... — H.G. Wells
To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amusing?" Amelia toyed with a button… — Lisa Kleypas
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

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