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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
