Eggs Quotes - Page 8

• Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

  Billy Wilder

  Smell, Cologne, Train

  "Fictional character: Tom Martin". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

  Groucho Marx

  Stupidity, Ham, Ifs

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• For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Self Esteem, Workaholic, Baskets

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

  Paul Tsongas

  Employment, Golden, Despise

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• Two eggs do not an omelette make

  Brooke Shields

  Two

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• When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.

  Fred Shero

  Commitment, Pigs, Breakfast

  "Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now". Book by Jim Jackson, January 5, 2005.

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• Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

  Aldous Huxley

  Women, Female, Century

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• Im as country as a dozen eggs.

  Elvin Bishop

  Country, Dozen

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• You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

  C. S. Lewis

  Goes On

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• The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  White, Evil, Black

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• The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

  Liam Williams

  Bird, Preparation, Peer Pressure

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• The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

  H. G. Wells

  Nurse, People, Shells

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Sides, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.139, Classic Books Company

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• My Chicken can do a special trick! "And what is that?" She can lay an egg! "And what's so special about THAT?!" Well, Can YOU lay an egg?

  Shirley Temple

  Special, Chickens, Tricks

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• At 18, I felt I was too young to think about having my eggs frozen.

  Delta Goodrem

  Thinking, Frozen, Young

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• I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Believe, Human Life

  "Epiphanies: Lord Robert Winston". "The Spirit of Things" with Rachael Kohn, www.abc.net.au. June 4, 2006.

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• Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the Guardian carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.

  Robert Winston

  Running, Children, Reading

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

  Julian Baggini

  Yesterday, Asylum Seekers, News

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• A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

  Robert Winston

  Ovaries, Teens, Young

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Elephants, World, Findings

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• If Brock Lesnar was here right now, I'd take my boot off and throw it at him, and he'd better polish it up before he brings it back to me. Talking about he's the baddest guy in the UFC? Brock, quit eating so many raw eggs and doing push-ups because it's affecting your realm of reality. Are you kidding me? I'd slap you in your face, and you wouldn't do anything. 'I'm Brock Lesnar. I've got this $5 haircut and a knife tattooed on my chest.' I'll shove it up your face if you get in Chael Sonnen's way.

  Chael Sonnen

  Reality, Ufc, Talking

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• Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

  Neil Gaiman

  Golden, Geese, Stills

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front door, weighed down by hundreds of pounds of concealed vandalism supplies, including enough raw eggs to feed Somalia for decades. By morning, thanks to our efforts, the entire neighborhood would be covered with a layer of congealed shaving cream and toilet paper that, around certain unpopular neighbors' homes, was hundreds of feet thick. This is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed.

  Dave Barry

  Morning, Fun, Halloween

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• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Fire, Meat

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, Important, Sometimes

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.200, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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