Chickens Quotes

“The cock’s shrill clarion.”

“Fair round belly with good capon lined.”

“I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.”

“The early village cock
Hath twice done salutation to the morn.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”

“Plover, partridge, for your dinner,
And a capon for the sinner.”

“Nort had chickens, I had cocks,
Gamesome cocks, loud-crowing cocks.”

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“The game-cock dipt and arm’d for fight
Does the rising sun affright.”

“Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, cock-a-diddle-dow.”

“For Pigeons' flesh he seems not much to care;
Cram'd Chickens are a more delicious fare.”

“Thither the houshold feathery people crowd,
The crested cock, with all his female train.”

“The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
Awake the god of day.”

“Jack, how agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good Friday last for a cup of Madeira and a cold capon’s leg?”

“Good-morrow to thy sable beak,
And glossy plumage, dark and sleek,
Thy crimson moon and azure eye,
Cock of the heath, so wildly shy!”

“But when the long hours of Public are past
And we meet with Champaign and a Chicken at last,
May every fond Pleasure that hour endear.”

“   The cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the barn door
Stoutly struts his dames before.”

“The lovers come near and far,
   And envy the chicken
   That Peggy is pickin’,
As she sits in the low-backed car.”

“[Chickens] may be capable of affection or loyalty or maybe even pride, but if so, they feel these feelings in an ancient and birdlike way, like glassy-eyed visitors from another world.”