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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her. — H.L. Mencken

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. — George Orwell

I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. — David Whyte

There's ten thousand wyes a hen can get into a gairden, but only the wan wye she can get oot, and it's gey ill for her to find it. — Neil Munro

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners. — James St. James

I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is. — Clarice Lispector

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs. — Armando Iannucci

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards.
(This Charming Man) — Marian Keyes

I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't. — Alexander McCall Smith

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

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens. — Cennino Cennini

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. Thomas Fuller GNOMOLOGIA — Noel Whittaker

An old hen is worth 40 chickens. ~ Hebe Jones — Julia Stuart

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. — Mark Twain

Is there a character in all of fiction more isolated than the little red hen? — Karen Joy Fowler

Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? — Pio Of Pietrelcina

When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love. — Charlotte Knobloch

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. — Margaret Thatcher

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods. — Jim Hightower

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.] — Richard Baxter

Until the hen makes a distinctive plan for the eggs, the chicken don't get hatched [ref Directions In Production Engineering Research, Part II] — Priyavrat Thareja

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. — Herman Melville

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. — Nikita Khrushchev

One bird's an eagle born - FALK. And one a hen. — Henrik Ibsen

And then there was one nonsense phrase he said near constant. Sounded like 'Cat hoodoo fat hag hen! — David Bain

Let us not doubt, brother. Let us not pry into the holy mysteries of the hen-coop with simian fingers. — Ernest Hemingway,

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it. — C. J. Dennis

Ni hen piao liang."
"What does it mean?"
"It means that you are beautiful. — Cassandra Clare

He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner. — Steven Pressfield

We are once amore as babes awondering in a wold made fresh where with the hen in the storyaboot we start from scratch. — James Joyce

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ... — Phyllis Bottome

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow. — Benjamin Franklin

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles. — Henry Ward Beecher

My sister." Lanthe rolled her eyes. "For someone so cool, she's turned into a mother hen. Weird. — Kresley Cole

The Easter egg which was not found
contained a letter from the hen who laid it,
saying Fuck your kids,
What about mine? — Shay Caroline

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies,
In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies. — Sidney Lanier

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. — Austin O'Malley

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book. — Julia Quinn

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler

Hen two friends discuss money, the third friend should invariably be asleep. — Dorothy Dunnett

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. — Jonathan Haidt

Those eyes filled him with the paralyzed, hopeless horror that the hen feels for the weasel. — Stephen King

All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others. — Viken Berberian

WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen! — Beatrix Potter

But a cock does not enter a hen ... it enters a ... meow-meow! — Faraaz Kazi

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. — George Herbert

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. — George M. Humphrey

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging! — Delia Smith

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire. — Larry Correia

I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me. — Chris Lynch

But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg. — John Grisham

I'm about to turn you from a rooster to a hen, you preening little prick. — J.T. Geissinger

Hen one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing. — Anton Chekhov

The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat. — Stephen King

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. — Sarah Brown

Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life. — Arthur Conan Doyle

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

If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen? — Spike Milligan

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. — H.L. Mencken

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal ... Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel

She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry. — Georgia Cates

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. — Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry. — Sidney Sheldon

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house. — Shelley Berkley

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing. — Mahmoud Darwish

It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive. — Robert W. Chambers

Hen two people fall in love, it is as if some new physical constant has been added to the universe. — David Javerbaum

I like ye fat, Sassenach," he said softly. "Fat and juicy as a plump wee hen. I like it fine. — Diana Gabaldon

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! — Harper Lee

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it. — Agatha Christie

If a moneyed man had a "corny mind", a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. — Ambrose Bierce

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out. — Louis L'Amour

[W]hen we come up with any concept at all, we simultaneously create one or more opposite concepts. — Steve Hagen

On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange — Gertrude Chandler Warner

Who knew that the Wyr warlord's real animal form was a mother hen? — Thea Harrison

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers — Anton Chekhov

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. — Navjot Singh Sidhu

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen! — Carol Ryrie Brink

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. — Ambrose Bierce

[W]hen you're dreaming, you're not the one calling the shots. So it's a reprieve. — Anne Lamott

(W)hen you cover up strange things, they never go away completely, do they? — Neal Shusterman

The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
Between the two we live and die
The broken cartwheel on the hill. — Wallace Stevens

No matter how big a hen's hut is, it must bow to enter — Ikechukwu Joseph

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. — Michael Foot

Hen I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail — Bob Dylan

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen. — Aeschylus

[W]hen we make mistakes, we shrug and say that we are human. As bats are batty and slugs are sluggish, our own species is synonymous with screwing up. — Kathryn Schulz

You're acting like a mother hen." Which I love. "Cluck, cluck," he deadpans — Kristen Callihan

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment. — Steven Mithen

Roan tried not to stare, but the guard's head was almost perfectly egg shaped. He wanted to ask him if he'd ever had a hen sit on him by mistake. — Andrea Speed

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day. — Ray Charles

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid. — Abraham Lincoln

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

But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. — George Orwell