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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

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

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

He seized a bucket and plunging it into one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

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

Enough , you hens!" Niobe exploded. "It's tentative!"
Lachesis snorted "As tentative as a pregnancy,girl! — Piers Anthony

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. — Ambrose Bierce

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth. — Louis Aragon

There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg. — Barbara Kingsolver

How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? — Mango Wodzak

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden. — Deborah Moggach

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death. — John Steinbeck

I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu. — Linda Thompson

The secret is," said Phoebe, smiling, "that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares. — Reinaldo Arenas

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. — Jeanette Winterson

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

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters. — Franz Grillparzer

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. — Giovanni Boccaccio

The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods. — Steven Tyler

Pain makes hens and poets cackle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. — Johannes Tauler

To my hens, I'm a two-legged giant who throws them corn and keeps stealing their eggs. — David Mitchell

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

And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him — Isabel Allende

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list. — Pliny The Elder

Hens were wandering about like ladies at a lyceum tea trying to find their friends before selecting their seats. — Gregory Maguire

To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now. — Louisa May Alcott

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail. — Anthony Doerr

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them. — Benjamin Franklin

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

Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, "Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar."
Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens. — Cherise Sinclair