Egg Laying Strains

Famous quotes containing the words egg, laying and/or strains:

“Better half an egg than an empty eggshell.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

“So, laying his cheek against the dresser’s wooden one,
He died making up stories, the ones
Not every child wanted to listen to.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)