Edward Lear 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
Donald Hall 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
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
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 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
Alice B Toklas 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
Alan Carr 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
Coco ChanelWork Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. – Coco Chanel
Margaret ThatcherWomen It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. – Margaret Thatcher
Alex HorneWedding 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
