Hens quotes
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People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth -
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
-- Armando Iannucci -
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If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!
-- Carol Ryrie Brink -
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 hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
-- Charles Darwin -
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
-- Coco Chanel -
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio -
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?
-- Goodluck Jonathan -
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...
-- H. G. Wells -
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.
-- James St. James -
[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 inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
-- Karl Mannheim -
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 darn good baloney.
-- Leo Burnett -
In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.
-- Louis Aragon -
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Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
-- Marian Keyes -
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
-- Michael Foot -
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu -
If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen?
-- Spike Milligan -
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
-- Steven Tyler -
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 atmosphere and sequestering it underground.
-- Thomas Homer-Dixon -
[Footnote:] Other foolish birds include the Semipalmated Plover, the Marbled Godwit, the Carolina Mosshead, the Tasmanian Googlenose and the Fool Hen or Franklin Grouse of the Rockies.
-- Will Cuppy -
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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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
-- Winifred Holtby
