hen quotes

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

- Samuel Butler
  Life and Habit, ch.8.

   Be courtly ay in clething and costlyarrayit, That hurtis yow nought worth a hen; yowr husband pays for all.

- Alexandre, pe'  re Dumas
early 16c The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, l.268^9.

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

- Michael Mackintosh Foot
  Speech, House of Commons.

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 nest in my beard!'

- Edward Lear
  A Book of Nonsense.