“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
Margaret Thatcher
“The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.”
“It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.”
Scottish Proverb
“Learn one thing from a lion; one from a crane; four a cock; five from a crow; six from a dog; and three from an ass.”
Chanakya
“She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .”
Anthony Trollope
“Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.”
Bible
“BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.”
Ambrose Bierce
