You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. (Quote by - George M. Humphrey)

Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen? Like Royalty, she goes her way, Laying foundations every day, Though not for Public Buildings, yet For Custard, Cake and Omelette. Of if too old for such a use They have their fling at some abuse, As when to censure Plays Unfit Upon the stage they make a Hit Or at elections seal the Fate Of an Obnoxious Candidate. No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen, Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house. (Quote by - Shelley Berkley)

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. (Quote by - Jeanette Winterson)

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. (Quote by - Fisher Ames)

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world. (Quote by - Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen. (Quote by - Alice B. Toklas)

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. (Quote by - Warren E. Burger)

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. (Quote by - Sarah Brown)

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. (Quote by - Michael Foot)

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. (Quote by - Nikita Khrushchev)

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. (Quote by - Navjot Singh Sidhu)

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us. (Quote by - Johannes Tauler)

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. (Quote by - Edward Lear)