(37 quotes found)
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
Mark Twain
“It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.”
Scottish Proverb
“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”
Margaret Thatcher
“We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“[W]hen you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.”
Carl Stokes
“A hen is heavy when carried far.”
Irish Proverb
“If you would have a hen lay you must bear with her cackling”
Proverb
“The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.”
“The first hen that cackles is the one that laid the egg”
