
Source: Speech in the House of Lords on the agricultural depression (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8
A collection of quotes on the topic of hen, doing, egg, likeness.
Source: Speech in the House of Lords on the agricultural depression (29 April 1879), reported in The Times (30 April 1879), p. 8
As quoted in Denselow, Robin (16 May 2008)
Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)
Source: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2280144,00.html, Robin Denselow talks to African superstar and activist Miriam Makeba, The Guardian, 15, London, 16 May 2008, 18 November 2010
Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).
Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, translated by Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987), pp. 422-424 http://www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-c/wagner02.htm
Source: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Three Steps to Yes: The Gentle Art of Getting Your Way
—H. L. Mencken O
“Sometimes Hen… I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.”
Source: Minx
Along Came a Dog (1958)
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats", 53.
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
"Loaning to Minorities … Is a Disaster" http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/09/loaning_to_minoritiesis_a_disa_1.html, NPR.org, (September 25, 2008).
pg. 37
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Collective nouns
Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/51-fra.html (25 June 1745)
Epistles
Source: The Book of The Damned (1919), Ch. 12 at resologist.net
Source: Unhappy Teenagers A Way for Parents and Teachers to Reach Them (2002), p.9
St. 2.
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bongy-Bò http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/ybb.html (1877)
Reported in Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons (1859). Ames is reported to have said this while opposing Parsons as counsel in a legal case.
The Greater Common Good May, 1999 http://www.narmada.org/gcg/gcg.html.
Articles
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1964/dec/03/schedule-7-commencement-transitional in the House of Commons (3 December 1964)
1960s
Along Came a Dog (1958)
Discussing Inside Nature's Giants 12 jUNE 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/jun/12/charlie-brooker-screen-burn
Guardian columns, Screen Burn
Paraphrased by w:Vaughn J. Featherstone in Food Storage http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=dfa0fd758096b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1|
Paraphrased
“2916. It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism, The Nation, posted January 15, 2004 (February 2, 2004 issue), January 9, 2006 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040202/klug/5,
The Works of Francis J. Grimke (1942), edited by Carter Godwin Woodson, Associated publishers, Incorporated, vol. II, page 252
Yahoo and How You Know You Have a Bad Legal Team http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/yahoo-and-how-you-know-you-have-a-bad-legal-team.html in IT Business Edge (5 October 2016)
As quoted in "Sasse Slams White House's Handling of 'Putin's Phony, Sham Re-Election'" http://www.weeklystandard.com/sasse-slams-white-houses-handling-of-putins-phony-sham-re-election/article/2012024#.WrLij2F635I.twitter (21 March 2018), by Jenna Lifhits, The Weekly Standard
Interview in Worlds in Harmony: Dialogues on Compassionate Action, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992, pp. 20-21.
Interview with George D. Rodger (15 December 2002), in VeganSociety.com https://www.vegansociety.com/sites/default/files/DW_Interview_2002_Unabridged_Transcript.pdf.
Reported in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law (1956), p. 731; Mason reports this as a toast Stone was fond of reciting, but does not settle authorship with Stone. Various other sources following Mason attribute authorship to Stone, but without citing an original source.
Attributed
Luis Miguel Dominguin had undergone surgery after being wounded in a bullfight. From the context it is clear that his remark about Hemingway was a joke.
Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 10
Putting Legal in Its Place: Why Companies Shouldn't Be Run by Execs with 'No' as Their Middle Names http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/putting-legal-in-its-place-why-companies-shouldnt-be-run-by-execs-with-no-as-their-middle-names.html in IT Business Edge (18 May 2017)
“The sun has a right to "set" where it wants to, and so, I may add, has a hen.”
A Mormon Romance, ch. 4.
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon
Context: The dreadful beast must be exterminated, the country-side must be freed from this pest, this terror, this destroying scourge. The fact that not even a hen roost was the worse for the dragon's arrival wasn't allowed to have anything to do with it. He was a dragon, and he couldn't deny it, and if he didn't choose to behave as such that was his own lookout. But in spite of much valiant talk no hero was found willing to take sword and spear and free the suffering village and win deathless fame; and each night's heated discussion always ended in nothing. Meanwhile the dragon, a happy Bohemian, lolled on the turf, enjoyed the sunsets, told antediluvian anecdotes to the Boy, and polished his old verses while meditating on fresh ones.
The facts and fancies of Mr. Darwin (1862)
Context: Though the large runt pigeon, with its massive beak and its huge feet, differs from its blue and barred progenitor the rock, it is a pigeon still. Though the slender Italian greyhound has a strange contrast with the short-legged bull-dog, they are both dogs in their teeth and in their skull. The mouse, even, has not been transmuted into the cat, nor the hen into the turkey, nor the duck into the goose, nor the hawk into the eagle, and still less the monkey into the man.
The Fifth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
Similar terminology is used about males as a defamation of character, or more broadly only about pressed males males: stud, wold, cat, stag, jack - and then it is used much more rarely, and often with a specifically sexual connotation.
Chapter Four
The Dialectic of Sex (1970)
Cardinal Francis Spellman in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 67
The Lovers (1993)
Political Register (2 June 1832), p. 545
1830s
Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 48
“[W]hen one plays for top prizes one must be prepared to pay top stakes.”
The Roman Empire (1967), p. 125
General sources
“A man can afford to let himself go in a hen-house.”
Bk 1, Ch. 1. iii
The Good Companions (1929)
2021, April 2021
Source: 22 April 2021 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/04/22/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-virtual-leaders-summit-on-climate-opening-session/
2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas