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#53 – 50. Eggs Quotes

53. I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. – James Beard

52. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis

51. I had an excellent repast — the best repast possible — which consisted simply of boiled eggs and bread and butter. It was the quality of these simple ingredients that made the occasion memorable. The eggs were so good that I am ashamed to say how many of them I consumed ….It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it. – Henry James

50. Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch’d than come to perfection. – Benjamin Franklin

#49 – 40. Eggs Quotes

49. The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. – Fisher Ames

48. You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis

47. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. – Bernard Meltzer

46. Eggs shouldn’t dance wtih stones. – Charlie Chan

45. Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. – William Cowper

44. It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. – Margaret Thatcher

43. Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. – William Shakespeare

42. The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. – Pamela Hansford Johnson

41. The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. – Alexander Pope

40. Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea? – Frank McCourt

#39 – 30. Eggs Quotes

39. An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when, in our world of chance and contingency, it ends up in an omelet and not in a chicken. Though it surely be a chemical process, we cannot understand it adequately without knowing the kind of chicken it has the power to become. – Sir John Randall

38. Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. – Coco Chanel

37. Learn from hen: never boast about egg until after eggs birthday. – Charlie Chan

36. The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. – Martina Navratilova

35. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. – Jonathan Swift

34. A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler

33. This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them. – Gracie Allen

32. Love and eggs are best when they are fresh. – Russian proverb.

31. An egg of one hour old, bread of one day, a goat of one month, wine of six months, flesh of a year, fish of ten years and a wife of twenty years, a friend among a hundred, are the best of all number. – John Wodroephe

30. Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts (of food) to bring about difficult reconciliations. – Des Essarts 

#29 – 20. Eggs Quotes

29. Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. – Maya Angelou

28. A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. – Samuel Butler 

27. When you feel like eating boiled eggs, if you have some truffles in the house, put them in a basket with the eggs and the next day you will have the best boiled eggs you have ever tasted in your gastronomic life. – M. Des Ombiaux

26. The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. – George Eliot

25. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. – Mark Twain

24. I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can’t think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I. – Claudette Colbert

23. I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg. – James M. Barrie

22. Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. – M.F.K. Fisher

21. The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. – Zora Neale Hurston

20. The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. – James Allen

#19 – 10. Eggs Quotes

19. An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different. – Oscar Wilde

18. If you’ve broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. – Anthony Eden

17. Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg. – Hans Christian Andersen

16. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. – Miguel de Cervantes

15. Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness. – Samuel Smiles

14. Put all your eggs in one basket and then Watch That Basket! – Andrew Carnegie

13. I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right. – Groucho Marx

12. Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs? – Thomas Moore

11. This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate the eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them. – Gracie Allen

10. I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it. – Alfred Hitchcock

#9 – 1. Eggs Quotes

9. I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. – Alfred Hitchcock 

8. Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge. – Hannah Woolley

7. I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one. – Paul Simon

6. An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow. – Benjamin Franklin

5. Do not put all your eggs in one basket. – Warren Buffett

4. Eggs taste best in the spring. Fresh eggs are given to young mothers to drink, and popular wisdom holds them to be good for newlyweds too. – Pellegrino Artusi

3. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. – Dr. Seuss

2. Always harder to keep murder secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk. – Charlie Chan

1. It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. – Dorothy Parker

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