Nikhil Sharda quote: "The codfish lays ten thousand eggs. The homely hen lays one. Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done. And so we scorn the codfish, while the humble hen we prize, which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!"

It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's
PROVERB

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thou...
P. G. WODEHOUSE

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER

Not every hen lay eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with great...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
...
THOMAS AQUINAS

For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I never named anything I've written before
no reason to
since
it would all have the s...
ALLY CONDIE

The universe never complains.
When you're wrong or right,
She always loves and cares,
DEBASISH MRIDHA

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land;
And giv'st me, for my bushel sown, <...
ROBERT HERRICK

If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .

If we can forgive what we've done to oth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

To an Isle in the Water

Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and neve...
MARY OLIVER

So, have we solved the secret of happiness?

"I believe so," he said

Are you go...
MITCH ALBOM

They tell us the only way to move on
is to forget.
“Forgive,” they say.
Realise ...
KAMAND KOJOURI

Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I ...
EMILY DICKINSON

Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single dis...
RYōKAN

Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one...
JACK JOHNSON

We met at a cross-roads in life,
But we were going different directions.
We were part of e...
MARGO T. ROSE

=> When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to sm...
STEPHENIE MEYER

CAUSE AND EFFECT

You can give a man who has never given you a good word,
Volumes of ...
SUZY KASSEM

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

Ah," s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

I don’t have any fancy story,
about the way we fell in love.
It was that one awkward mov...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER

It Couldn't Be Done

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle repli...
EDGAR A. GUEST

Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
Scorn and derision never come in tears:
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A black hen lays a white egg.
FRENCH PROVERB

At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

(fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
but it will be like the frog finds the princess ZELDA GIN

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
BIL KEANE

Now that lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fi...
T.S. ELIOT

You are the mark on my liquid heart
where love begins with the beginning’s start
You are...
MUNIA KHAN

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name...
LEWIS CARROLL

And besides, we’re not really all that different. Although I think I’m a little more . . . ” JILL SHALVIS

Remember
Love doesn't make the world go round
Sex makes it spin for a second or two
I...
CATH CROWLEY

Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER

One of them has to break,” the queen said to the princess. “Only then can it begin.”

SARAH J. MAAS

I KNEW IT WAS OVER

when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring
when you use...
DAPHNE GOTTLIEB

What are you doing?” she asked.

“Getting naked.”

“What the hells for?�...
G.A. AIKEN

The Girl With Many Eyes
One day in the park
I had quite a surprise.
I met a girl
TIM BURTON

What if all your hard work never pays off?
What if I am the outsider to my friends and family?...
QUETZAL

HOW

do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS

I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

He was a strong and noble lord with piercing eyes of grey.
He sat upon his noble throne shinin...
LAUREL A. ROCKEFELLER

I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN

And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."
She raised her hand. "Don't."
ILONA ANDREWS

What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women ...
WALT WHITMAN

Just Friends

I know that I don't own you,
and perhaps I never will,
so anger wh...
LANG LEAV

But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these...
AMIE KAUFMAN

I have something to tell you."

"How, you have something to tell me?"

"You have...
STEVEN BRUST

What is this love
that makes me see beauty,
and makes every beautiful thing
bring yo...
KAMAND KOJOURI

I want to write something
so simply
about love
or about pain
that even
...
MARY OLIVER

I am sitting far from you
A thousand miles away from you
I sit and write for you
A th...
AMIT ABRAHAM

You
are the poem
I never knew
how to write
and this life
is the story
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON

The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But i...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

The Pretender

Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark an...
FOO FIGHTERS

Nothing
would be
easier without
you,
because you
are
everything,
KATE DICAMILLO

Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world i...
EMILIE AUTUMN

O, weary angels,
don’t look at me with those eyes.
If that is your state
then wha...
KAMAND KOJOURI

All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And...
JAMES SHIRLEY

Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"

Which was a ten on th...
JAMES PATTERSON

I WANT her though, to take the same from me.
She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
D.H. LAWRENCE

AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL

Dear Mr. Schneider,
I attended your elementary
Schoo...
SUZY KASSEM

To know the way,
we go the way,
we do the way.
The way we do,
the things we do...
BENJAMIN HOFF

The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
thou...
MARY OLIVER

If you feel so empty
So used up, so let down
If you feel so angry
So ripped off so st...
THREE DAYS GRACE

Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth
Who sees it all?
Varuna has but a thousand e...
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK

Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR

Girl, bite. Girl, devour. Girl, don't forgive.
Girl, stay angry. Girl, be selfish.
Girl, w...
CAITLYN SIEHL

I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS

I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept s...
MARY OLIVER

Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not ...
ELLEN HOPKINS

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA

For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
KAMAND KOJOURI

Does it give you deja voodoo how alike the houses are?"
"That's deja vu, and I hate you right n...
RACHEL CAINE

We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall...
GEORGE HARRISON

My friend once told me
she liked this guy because of his hands
And I found it absurd that ...
CAROL SHLYAKHOVA

Basch: So why don't you ask her out?

The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no...
SAMUEL SHEM

The dead do not need
aspirin or
sorrow,
I suppose.
but they might need
rain...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

You're reaching out
And no one hears you cry
You're freaking out again
'Cause all you...
DAVID ARCHULETA

A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA

The garden where you sit
Has never a need of flowers,
For you are the blossoms
And on...
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES

What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that...
POLLY SHULMAN

Time

You were the one
I wanted most
to stay.

But time could not
LANG LEAV

A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

You brought me to places
I’d have never thought to go
To a trail near the river
Whe...
JUSTIN WETCH

Are you done eating that?"
"What?"
"You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some." JESSE ANDREWS

Our bodies knock

and we pretend like we can't hear

They knock to tell us to ...
MALEBO SEPHODI

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never whol...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Start by pulling him out of the fire and
hoping that he will forget the smell.
He was supp...
CAITLYN SIEHL

KINGDOM OF THE WOMB

From her thighs, she gives you life
And how you treat she who gi...
SUZY KASSEM

So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
"Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie."
SARAH DESSEN

In reality, they are not, ... Nowadays sterile eggs are also produced. The hen is not allowed to see...
MAHATMA GANDHI

THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS

Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The ...
SUZY KASSEM

So many likes and retweets for having the "GUTS"
to say what every-
one thinks

...
ANDY CARRINGTON

You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.”

“What’s it like?”
...
KRISTIN CASHORE

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer...
PABLO NERUDA

People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being tho...
LAURA RIDING JACKSON

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!

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Nikhil Sharda

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!

Nikhil Sharda

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The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.The homely hen lays one.Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.And so we scorn the codfish,while the humble hen we prize,which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!

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The codfish lays ten thousand eggs.
The homely hen lays one.
Codfish never cackles to tell you what she has done.
And so we scorn the codfish,
while the humble hen we prize,
which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise!