Quotes by Hens 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 hens great-men virtue A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. J. R. R. Tolkien beaks pens hens 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 hens chickens eggs When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners. James St. James hens dinner house Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. Julia Quinn hens trying book [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 hens discipline defense 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. Katherine Dunn papa hens crystals In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth. Louis Aragon hens teeth ideas 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. Malcolm X hens too-much gun Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man) Marian Keyes hens men night 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. Maureen Johnson hens eggs enough A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. Michael Foot hens eggs sitting It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. Navjot Singh Sidhu hens eggs sitting Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? Pio of Pietrelcina hens soar eagles 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. Pliny the Elder hens ears two The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods. Steven Tyler crow hens may 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. Susan Orlean hens winter needs 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. Thomas Homer-Dixon hens environmental atmosphere 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 roosters hens sex 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 hens progress change «12