The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH!
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?
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
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.
[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.
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.
Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?
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.
What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.
While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
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.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
