A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

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Better Egg Hen Morrow Than Today

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Samuel Butler

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

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

Cennino Cennini

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller never reacheth; To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance; To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of manners; To-morrow, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the destroyer. Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal lie; Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a wholesome truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Michael Foot

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

C. J. Dennis

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

Delia Smith

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

Charles Spurgeon

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

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

Phyllis Bottome

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

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

Mark Twain

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.