Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Eggs Quotes, Layers Quotes

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

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Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

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

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Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

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In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

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wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

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Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.

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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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From the egg to the apple.

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One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

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The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

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As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

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