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«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 nests in my beard»
«The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away»
Author: Fisher Ames | Keywords: eggs, hen, hens, persists, setting
«The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.»
Author: Sarah Brown | Keywords: hen, hens, Sat
«It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.»
«An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow»
«Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen»
«A hen is heavy when carried far.»
Author: Irish Proverb | Keywords: carried, heavy, hen, hens
«A fox may steal your hens, sir, / . . . If lawyer's hand is fee'd sir, / He steals your whole estate.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: fee, fox, hens, steals
«Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.»
«Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen»
Author: Turkish Proverb | About: Carpe Diem | Keywords: egg, good egg, hen, hens

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