Quotes about rooster

A collection of quotes on the topic of rooster, crow, hen, look.

Quotes about rooster

Galén photo

“Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.”
Triste est omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque

Galén (129–216) Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher

Galen (30-200 A.D.), in: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, (1973), p. 19.
Latter day attributions

Margaret Mitchell photo
Giovanni Boccaccio photo
Muhammad Ali photo
Aung San Suu Kyi photo
Joel Chandler Harris photo

“Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.”

Joel Chandler Harris (1848–1908) Journalist, children's writer

Plantation Proverbs.

Charles Bukowski photo
Kim Young-sam photo

“Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.”

Kim Young-sam (1927–2015) South Korean politician

As quoted in "Kim Young-sam: Former President of South Korea Dies at 87" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/asia/kim-young-sam-former-president-of-south-korea-dies-at-87.html?_r=0 (November 2015), by Sang-Hun Choe, The New York Times (22 November 2015), New York