Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
Fowl quotes
Fowl
37 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]"
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin."
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"Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate."
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