"Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me."
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"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."
"Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!"
"I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me."
"Practice is practice, chicken is chicken."
"With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet."
"Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?"
"I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into."
"Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken."
"Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market."
"You might heckle me now - but when I get home, I've got a chicken in the oven."
"I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad."
"I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad."
"Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon."
"My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it."
"The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it."
"The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
"Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish."
"It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken"
"Anyone can make a good roast chicken."
"In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch."