Hens Quotes
Hens Quote of the day
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.
When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.
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.
They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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.
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?
When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.
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.
Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.
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.
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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.
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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.
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.
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.
Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
