Teach your grannum to suck eggs. [ Proverb ]

There is reason in roasting of eggs. [ Proverb ]

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle. [ Dutch Proverb ]

He set my house afire only to roast his eggs. [ Proverb ]

I would not have your cackling for your eggs. [ Proverb ]

Chickens are long in coming out of unlaid eggs. [ German Proverb ]

All your eggs have two yolks apiece, I warrant you. [ Proverb ]

You have found a colt's nest, and laugh at the eggs. [ Proverb ]

Eggs will be in three bellies in four and twenty hours. [ Proverb ]

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens. [ Proverb ]

My dame fed her hens with mere thanks, and they laid no eggs. [ Proverb ]

More crafty than the cuckoo (who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). [ Proverb ]