Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs..

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line..

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!.

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 ha….

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid..

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another..

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a cor….

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle..

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

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by a….