George Eliot Eggs Quotations

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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.