Quotes of Poultry - somelinesforyou

“ The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ”

- Sarah Brown

“ You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. ”

- George M. Humphrey

“ Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken. ”

- Isabel Allende

“ All we are saying is give peace a chance… ”

- John Lennon

“ We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off. ”

- David Smith

“ I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. ”

- E. B. White

“ Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. ”

- Aesop

“ Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. ”

- Unknown

“ People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. ”

- Bob Hope

“ I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. ”

- Aesop

“ While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ”

- Giovanni Boccaccio

“ A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ”

- George Eliot

“ The sleeping fox catches no poultry. ”

- Benjamin Franklin
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