Snails Lay Eggs

Famous quotes containing the words lay eggs, snails, lay and/or eggs:

“Cackling hens do not lay eggs.”
—Chinese proverb.

“little snails at the back
of the knee building bon-
fires ...”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“True Thomas lay on Huntlie bank;
A ferlie he spied wi’ his e’e;
And there he saw a lady bright,
Come riding down by the Eildon Tree.”
—Unknown. Thomas the Rhymer (l. 1–4)

“One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called “weasel words.” When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a “weasel word” after another there is nothing left of the other.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)