Have you ever seen a man, woman, or child who wasn’t eating an egg or just going to eat an egg or just coming away from eating an egg? I tell you, the good old egg is the foundation of daily life. Stop the first man you meet in the street and ask him which he’d sooner lose, his egg or his wife, and see what he says!
P.G. Wodehouse
Related We are—or were —Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beli... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married WALL STREET JOURNAL Which came first, the chicken or the egg PROVERB It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn ... C.S. LEWIS It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to f... C. S. LEWIS It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to f... C.S. LEWIS Man is on earth as in an egg HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg. JASPER FFORDE What damn difference does it make which came first, the chicken or the egg if you’re going to eat ... BOBBY W. MILLER This is a good Easter egg as it shows you exactly what you're getting in advance. You don't have to ... LIAM TOMASSI You can't unscramble an egg AMERICAN PROVERB It's kinda like which comes first, the chicken or the egg. JUD HONAKER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. SAMUEL BUTLER Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm. ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he marr... SOURCE UNKNOWN Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN throw an egg at him. DAVID BLAINE I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry. MARTHA STEWART You can't bake an omelet without breaking an egg DUTCH PROVERB I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anythin... CLAUDETTE COLBERT what came first the chicken or the egg, is not relevant when you realize what comes around goes arou... PRATIK SHARDA No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day. DJ KHALED The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand. ... MARGARET ATWOOD I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of any... CLAUDETTE COLBERT I hope justice will be preserved. I have no problem spending my tax dollars to let this man sit in j... ELLONIA BICKERS I am only an egg. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell. IRISH PROVERB If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you
would eat chickens i' th' shell. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in th... DENIS DIDEROT The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. ... THOMAS HUNT MORGAN 'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg. WILLIAM HARVEY Although the view into the cavity is very limited and we can't actually see the egg, we strongly sus... JOE BURNETT Offer the lazy an egg, and they'll want you to peel it for them LITHUANIAN PROVERB Spare feast! a radish and an egg. WILLIAM COWPER Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon saus... TERRY JONES Roxster, my photo is of an egg. HELEN FIELDING Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. Sh... BRENDA AGNELLO A fried egg is an indefinite 'meat'. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of reper... FRANK BLACK Egg whites add volume and protein to your omelet with few calories and no extra fat or cholesterol. ... TANYA ZUCKERBROT The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ALEXANDER POPE Allow me to give my lord one last piece of counsel," the old man had said, "the same counsel I once ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of wate... DREW CAREY It is very hard to shave an egg GEORGE HERBERT So we kind of laid an egg in our very first game. PAT HADEN Whose interest does egg freezing serve? The woman's or that of an ambitious, still pretty unforgivin... RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. JANE AUSTEN Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl... ABRAHAM LINCOLN [Trying to rob Livingston of the remaining votes are Reps. Christopher Cox (R-California) and Jim Ta... CHRISTOPHER COX I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho... ALFRED HITCHCOCK An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He who feeds the hen ought to have the egg DANISH PROVERB I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I rep... ROBERT WINSTON Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I agree. You don't want it to look boring. It's [the Easter egg] got to look good otherwise it's jus... LIAM TOMASSI The specialty egg segment has grown dramatically in the last eight or nine years. ALAN ANDREWS The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg. RICHARD DAWKINS When arguing with a stone an egg is always wrong AFRICAN PROVERB A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. SAMUEL BUTLER If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how... HARUKI MURAKAMI An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Its a chicken-and-egg argument as to which comes first. JOE GILL For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simp... DOUGLAS ADAMS If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. BOB HOPE The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the pas... SEAN M. CARROLL I have moved on from the hurt of my father and have accepted his sperm of life as his only positive ... NERISSA IRVING What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ANONYMOUS What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. OLIVER HERFORD Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, / Which is as white and hairless as an egg. ROBERT HERRICK Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? / Can that which is uns... BIBLE The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook. DAVID CHANG Send not for a hatchet to break open an egg with THOMAS FULLER People who are pro-abortion care more about the future of their child and less about the conceived e... HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. OLIVER HERFORD In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so inter... SHAHID KHAN The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would ... NATHAN MYHRVOLD The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON If you can get behind an Englishman's unholy fear of making a friend until he has known the candidat... WILLIAM H. MAULDIN The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo... HERMANN HESSE I train in the mornings, and I'll eat two breakfasts. I'll have waffles with flax seed and a... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts. GABRIELA ISLER It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver... JIM BUTCHER We have our first delivery from a successfully frozen human egg. JAMIE GRIFO My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. CILLA BLACK The jackets, pants and long coats have sculptural cuts. I must say, though, that some of the silhoue... MARIO BANDIERA I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. JACK LALANNE If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or... VITO FOSSELLA The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg... GOODLUCK JONATHAN A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ASHISH KUMAR Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. M. F. K. FISHER Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. M.F.K. FISHER Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced b... KENNETH R. MILLER If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. BOB HOPE An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and ... ANUJ SOMANY Fresno played well, we laid an egg, and it was an unacceptable performance. We have to play better. GERRY FLEMING A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slight... BERNARD MELTZER A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slight... BERNARD MELTZER Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer. CONAN O'BRIEN She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater. HEDDA HOPPER I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg cust... LESLEY NICOL
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