Hens Quotes

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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 themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

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.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

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?

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

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

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

[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.

The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.

Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

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 laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.

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

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

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.

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.

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.