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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. Tolkien / Writer
Beaks
Hens
Pens
Hen
Pen
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I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.
Margaret Trudeau / Author
Hen
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An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
Today
Egg
Hen
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler / Author
Funny
Nature
Science
Crazy
Silly
Way
Another
Only
Egg
Hen
Making
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Navjot Singh Sidhu / Cricketer
Brooding
China
Eggs
Hens
Sitting
Egg
Hen
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus / Dramatist
Boast
Hens
Beside
Bold
Hen
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A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
Michael Foot / Former Leader Of The Labour Party
China
Eggs
Hens
Royal
Sitting
Commission
Egg
Hen
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The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Sarah Brown /
Success
Sat
Way
Thing
Only
Ever
Hen
The Only Thing
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If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev / Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Advice
Bird
Paradise
Political
Wet
Catch
Hen
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev / Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union
Bird
Paradise
Wet
Catch
Hen
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Funny
Inspirational
Humor
Eggs
Hen
Laying
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My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec / Painter
Famous
Mother's Day
Dear
Mama
Definitely
Duck
Hatched
Hen
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Women
Crow
Eggs
Lays
May
Crows
Hen
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You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
George M. Humphrey / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Morning
Fog
Lunch
Salad
Chicken
Hen
One Morning
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel / Fashion Designer
Work
Done
Eggs
Gentleness
Hens
Happen
Hen
Laying
Unless
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I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
Penny Lancaster / Model
Look I Am Me
Hen
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain / Author
Funny
Life
Inspiration
Noise
Asteroid
Often
Egg
Hen
Laid
Merely
Proves
She
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For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley / Former U.s. Representative
Department
Investigation
Conduct
Fox
Hen
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames / Former United States Representative
Eggs
Fog
Gentleman
Setting
Taken
Hen
Persists
Puts
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I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.
Mary Berry /
Christmas
Mother Always I Am
Advance
Daunting
Hen
Prepare
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What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Alice B. Toklas / Author
Guinea
Sauce
Chicken
Duck
Goose
Hen
Necessarily
Turkey
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There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.
Edward Lear / Artist
Men
Beard
Built
Four
Justice
Old Man
Said
Two
Man Old Man Old
Just
Man
Who
Old
Feared
Hen
Owls
Wren
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?
Goodluck Jonathan / President Of Nigeria
Argument
Eggs
Hens
Nigeria
Philosophical
Presidency
Egg
Evolutionary
Hen
Zoning
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If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.
Andrew Neil /
Gang
Grand
Hen
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You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
Rudolf Steiner / Philosopher
Brooding
Mood
Condition
Bodies
Compared
Contented
Experiences
Hen
New Will Always
Physical
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It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet /
Harmony
Billy
Women Together World
Hen
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I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Diane Lane / Actress
Movie
Filmmaking
Martyred
Mother
Nobility
Thinking
Ultimate
Years
Directing
Hen
Requires
Task
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Warren E. Burger / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Legal
Advertising
Advice
Chickens
Giving
House
Threshold
Bite
Cross
Fox
Hen
Telling
Visit
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
John Burroughs / Essayist
August
Bird
Calm
Ease
Leisure
Likes
Majestic
Warm
Month
Hawk
Hen
Movements
Noticeable
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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
Donald Hall / Poet
Dear
Grandfather
Noon
Setting
Twelve
Chicken
Cooked
Dinners
Farm
Hen
Summers
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