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)

    “O but there is wisdom
    In what the sages said;
    But stretch that body for a while
    And lay down that head
    Till I have told the sages
    Where man is comforted.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)