Chicken Quote by George Herbert

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot…

— B. C. Forbes

Now what, I say now whats that skinny old hen doin up on the barn.

— Foghorn Leghorn

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

— Fisher Ames

Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.

— Arthur M. Jolly

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

— Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

— Nikita Khrushchev

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

— Sarah Brown

“the chickens scratched,”

— Sharon Mierke

I didn't want a hen-do because I think they're disgusting.

— Fearne Cotton

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

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

— Jim Hightower

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec