egg quotes

All the egg heads are in one basket.

-Anonymous
  Of President Kennedy's advisers. Quoted by Harold Macmillan in a letter to the Queen,12  Apr.

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

- Samuel Butler
  Life and Habit, ch.8.

   'It's very provoking,' Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke,'to be called an eggvery!'

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.6,'Humpty Dumpty'.

   My veins are filled onceaweek with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

-JohnWilliam Cheever
  On his cancer treatment. Letter to Philip Roth,10 May.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.

-William Cowper
  Poems,'The Progress of Error', l.239.

Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now infected with salmonella.

- Edwina Currie
  Radio interview as junior Health Minister, 3 Dec, which outraged both the domestic poultry industry and those of her own back-benchers who represented agricultural constituencies, forcing her resignation two weeks later.

   'It's very easy to talk,'said Mrs Mantalini.'Not so easy when one is eating a demnition egg,'replied Mr Mantalini; 'for the yolk runs down the waistcoat, and yolk of egg does not match any waistcoat but a yellow waistcoat, demmit.'

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^9  Nicholas Nickleby, ch.17.

Voyez-vous cet oeuf. C'est avec cela qu'on renverse toutes les e  coles de the  ologie, et tous les temples de la terre. Seethis egg.It iswith thisthat all theschools of theology and all the temples of the earth are to be overturned.

- Denis Diderot
  Le Re" v e de d'Alembert (published1830), pt.1.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.Your still fowl, blinking at youwithout remark, mayall thewhilebesittingonone addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Felix Holt, ch.15.

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

- Michael Mackintosh Foot
  Speech, House of Commons.

It is like balancing an egg on a spoon while shooting the rapids.

- (Norman) Graham Hill
On motor racing. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.

-Ted (Edward James) Hughes
  'Pike'.

SoTomwent homewith Ellie†and heisnowa great man of science†and knows everything about everything, except whya hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things which no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. And all this fromwhat helearnt whenhewas awater-baby, underneaththesea. 'And of course,Tom married Ellie?'My dear child, what a silly notion! Don't you know that no one ever marries in a fairy tale, under the rank of a prince or a princess?

- Charles Kingsley
  The Water Babies, ch.8.

Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Story of the Gadsbys,'Poor Dear Mamma'.

My job, as I see it, has never been to laya tit's egg, but to erupt like a volcano emitting not only flame but a lot of rubbish.

-Grieve
  Letter to George Bruce,1  Jul.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-government at the same time.You cannot love employees and despise employers.You cannot redistribute wealth that you never created. No goose, no golden egg.

- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
  Quoted in the Los AngelesTimes,19 Feb.

Go to work on an egg.

- Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw Weldon
  Advertising slogan for the British Egg Marketing Board.