Eggs Quotes - Page 2

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Portraits, Starting

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Hopeful, Analogies

  George Eliot (1910). “Works of George Eliot”

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Broken, Bird

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Boredom, Bird

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.149, Harvard University Press

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• The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Success, Laziness, Golden

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• To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.

  Peter Singer

  Mother, Dog, Baby

  "Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals". Book by Peter Singer, 1975.

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• A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clever, Vision, Omelets

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• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Ordinary, Goes On

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Food, World

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Wise, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 15

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• Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

  Coco Chanel

  Done, Hens, Happens

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• The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Commitment, Pigs

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• My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.

  Gary Oldman

  Morning, Sunday, Tea

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Chinese

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• I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

  Dr. Seuss

  Memorable, Ham, Green

  Green Eggs and Ham (1960)

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• I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

  Dr. Seuss

  House, Ham, Green

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• It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Cells, Guy

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• Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Purpose, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.353

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• I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

  Jay-Z

  Easter, Use, Ems

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patience, Fowl, Hatching

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.404, Wildside Press LLC

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• Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

  Edward Abbey

  Book

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

  Isaac Asimov

  Rotten, Able, Knows

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.308, Bantam

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• Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.684, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I awaken. I consume oxygen, then bacon, eggs and black coffee, then my wife, then bacon.

  Nick Offerman

  Coffee, Oxygen, Wife

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 31, 2012.

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