Quotes with meadow-hen

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    English writer, philologist, poet, theologian and professor (1892 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Butler A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Nikita Khrushchev If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Leo Burnett If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Margaret Thatcher It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Mark Twain Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Margaret Thatcher The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Oscar Wilde The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Butler The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bayard Taylor When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire:... And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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