Chickens

Famous quotes containing the word chickens:

    Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    my Uncle Sol’s farm
    failed because the chickens
    ate the vegetables so
    my Uncle Sol had a
    chicken farm till the
    skunks ate the chickens when
    —E.E. (Edward Estlin)

    Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
    What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
    At one fell swoop?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)