Top 119 Hen Quotes & Sayings

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!

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

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.

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen?

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

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.

Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all - there's a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. They work not on their heels, but on their wits.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

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.

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

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

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

You have the chicken, the hen, and the rooster. The chicken goes with the hen So who is having sex with the rooster?

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

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

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a 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.

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

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.

I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.

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

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

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.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

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.

Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

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

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.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

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

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

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

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

I'm the middle child in my family and I sometimes feel like a mother hen.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.