Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aeschylus

Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.

Harper Lee

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

George Herbert

Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.

J. R. R. Tolkien

A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

Katherine Dunn

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Bill Bryson

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Ayn Rand

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is explosive power in virtue.

William Shakespeare

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

Juvenal

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

William Shakespeare

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.

Carl Jung

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

Nigel Farage

I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.

Pierre Corneille

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.