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Hen Quotes

Hen Definition

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

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

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

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken

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

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Warren E. Burger

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

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

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

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 wren have all built their nests in my beard.
Edward Lear

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Alice B. Toklas

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
George M. Humphrey

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