Famous quotes containing the words cackling hen, superior, cackling and/or hen:
“Cackling hens do not lay eggs.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)