Acceptance Quote by Phyllis Bottome

“The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

— Abraham Lincoln

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

— Samuel Butler

“To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of…

— William James

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Sarah Brown

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

— Delia Smith

“I have never before gathered eggs from under a hen. Fernando has never before seen a hen. We bend low into the shed where…

— Marlena de Blasi

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

— Benjamin Franklin

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

— C. J. Dennis