Top 40 Hen Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hen Quotes from famous people such as Shelley Berkley, Alan Carr, Fisher Ames, Michael Foot, Sarah Brown, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigat

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley
Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all – there’s a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. They work not on their heels, but on their wits.
Alan Carr
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.
Michael Foot
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Sarah Brown
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.
Edward Lear
When I lived summers at my grandparents’ farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
Donald Hall
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.
Edward Lear
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
John Burroughs
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?
Goodluck Jonathan
I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.
Margaret Trudeau
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.
Mary Berry
If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Sarah Brown
I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night. They say, ‘Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?’
Alex Horne
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Alice B. Toklas
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Aeschylus
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin Franklin
You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
Rudolf Steiner
I get people using my admin skills to try to basically plan their wedding or stag night. They say, ‘Can you just come up with six tasks for us on our hen night?’
Alex Horne
For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Diane Lane
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.
Diane Lane
I do look after everyone around me; that’s just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
Penny Lancaster
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. Tolkien
If you’re on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you – which means it’s just grand for the rest of us.
Andrew Neil
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid a

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
I am a bit of a mother hen at Christmas! I always prepare in advance. It is the only way; otherwise, it can be really daunting.
Mary Berry
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
I do look after everyone around me; that’s just who I am. I am a real mother hen.
Penny Lancaster
Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all – there’s a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. They work not on their heels, but on their wits.
Alan Carr
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
If you’re on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you – which means it’s just grand for the rest of us.
Andrew Neil
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?
Goodluck Jonathan