Pliny the Elder
Naturalist, Author
"The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list."
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Hens
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J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
Giovanni Boccaccio
Poet, Novelist
"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Socialite
"People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line."
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"It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching."
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"Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen."
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"An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow."
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"Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket."
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"The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it."
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"[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out."
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"When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners."
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"hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground."
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"States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs."
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"To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle."
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"Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!"
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"Hee that comes of a hen must scrape."
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"Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another."
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"Pain makes hens and poets cackle."
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