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Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!
Harper Lee / Novelist
Bigs
Hens
Jacob
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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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An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
Benjamin Franklin / Founding Father Of The United States
Eggs
Hens
Morrow
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Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.
Armando Iannucci / Satirist
Eggs
Fickle
Hens
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If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!
Carol Ryrie Brink / Author
Firsts
Hens
Ifs
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Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?
Pio Of Pietrelcina / Saint
Eagles
Hens
Soar
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The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.
Steven Tyler / Singer-Songwriter
Crow
Hens
May
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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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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
H. G. Wells / Writer
War
Eggs
Hens
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Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
Julia Quinn / Author
Book
Hens
Trying
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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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In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.
Louis Aragon / Poet
Hens
Ideas
Teeth
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When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.
James St. James / Television Personality
Dinner
Hens
House
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Eggs
Hens
Vanity
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Work
Dry
Each Day
Hens
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
Giovanni Boccaccio / Author
Men
Farmers
Hens
Roosters
Sufficient
Ten
Allow
Generally
Rooster
Scarcely
Service
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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 / Human Rights Activist
Gun
Hens
Too Much
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People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth / Writer
Hens
Lines
People
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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 / Poet
Hens
Roosters
Sex
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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 / Writer
Hens
Hypocrisy
Meat
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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 / Author
Chickens
Eggs
Hens
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Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
Marian Keyes / Novelist
Men
Hens
Night
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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 / Author
Ears
Hens
Two
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Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
Maureen Johnson / Author
Eggs
Enough
Hens
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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 / Journalist
Eggs
Hens
Writing
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Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Winifred Holtby / Novelist
Change
Hens
Progress
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
Henry Ward Beecher / Minister
Great Men
Hens
Virtue
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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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It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
Charles Darwin / Naturalist
Acres
Earth
Hens
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hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.
Thomas Homer-Dixon / University Professor
Environmental
Atmosphere
Hens
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I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start laying again, that's all the notice I'll need to know that winter has passed.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Hens
Needs
Winter
Good Start Never
Bulb
Catalogs
Dates
Delivered
Hardly
Notice
Passed
Remembering
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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
Katherine Dunn / Novelist
Crystals
Hens
Papa
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[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.
Glenn Reynolds / Law Professor
Hens
Party
Pay The Price
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[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
E. O. Wilson / Biologist
Religion
Hens
Mind
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The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.
George R. R. Martin / Novelist
Apples
Hens
Never Trust
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Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
Charles Churchill / Poet
Art
Feet
Hens
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[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions.
Karl Mannheim / Sociologist
Defense
Discipline
Hens
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