A Quote by C. J. Dennis

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

C. J. Dennis

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Egg Hen Lay Men Sell Seven Takes

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C. J. Dennis
Australian - Poet
September 7, 1876 - June 22, 1938

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

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

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

Gabriel Byrne

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

Samuel Butler

My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

Shirley Temple

Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

H. L. Mencken

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

Michael Foot

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

It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.