“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. V
Following the Equator (1897)
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 240.
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Kapil Sibal (1948) Indian lawyer and politician
On the Supreme Court's decision to cancel 2G spectrum licences, as quoted in Telecom sector not to lay 'golden egg' for a while, thanks to Supreme Court: Kapil Sibal http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-03/news/38248797_1_telecom-sector-golden-egg-apex-court, The Economic Times (3 April 2013)
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
Meindert DeJong book Along Came a Dog
Along Came a Dog (1958)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
