A Quote by Michael Foot

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

Michael Foot

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Michael Foot
English - Politician
Born: July 23, 1913

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

Navjot Singh Sidhu

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

Samuel Butler

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

C. J. Dennis

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Twain

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

Louis L'Amour

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

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

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