Bad hen, bad egg. [ Proverb ]
An egg and to bed. [ Proverb ]
His egg has two yolks. [ Proverb ]
Kill a cockatrice in the egg. [ Proverb ]
It is very hard to shave an egg. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
But one egg, and that addled too. [ Proverb ]
A black hen will lay a white egg. [ Proverb ]
From the beginning (from the egg).
You cackle often but never lay an egg. [ Proverb ]
Your egg is ready roasted to your hand. [ Proverb ]
He that steals an egg will steal an ox. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Better half an egg than an empty shell. [ Proverb ]
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. [ Cowper ]
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. [ Proverb ]
He never was good, neither egg nor bird. [ Proverb ]
As good be an addled egg as an idle bird. [ Proverb ]
You may truss up all his wit in an egg-shell. [ Proverb ]
Gone is the goose that the great egg did lay. [ Proverb ]
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]
Send not for an hatchet to break open an egg with. [ Proverb ]
He swallows the egg and gives away the shell in alms. [ German Proverb ]
Prate is prate, but it is the duck that lays the egg. [ Proverb ]
They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. [ German Proverb ]
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. [ Proverb ]
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is as hard a thing as to sail over the sea in an egg-shell. [ Proverb ]
They have need of a canny cook that have but one egg for their dinner. [ Proverb ]
The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing. [ Feltham ]
Never use a hammer to break an egg, when you can do it with a pen-knife. [ Proverb ]
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. [ George Eliot ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]