“The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”
Charles Stuart Calverley
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
Bernard Meltzer
“When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong”
African Proverb
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S. Lewis
“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.”
Jane Austen
“She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.”
Hedda Hopper