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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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'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

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! — Harper Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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