Hen Proverbs

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen. (Turkish Proverb)
When a hen is brooding, another hen cannot sit on her eggs. View proverb
Sudanese Proverb
The robin and the wren are God's cock and hen; the martin and the swallow are God's mate and marrow. View proverb
Tanzanian Proverb
Add up your pennies, and buy a hen. View proverb
Polish Proverb
Ask which was born first, the hen or the egg. View proverb
Italian Proverb
If the hen had not cackled, we should not know she had laid an egg. View proverb
Italian Proverb
There is little peace in that house where the hen crows and the cock is mute. View proverb
Italian Proverb
Every cackling hen was an egg at first. View proverb
Rwandan Proverb
The hen lays an egg, and the cock feels the pain in his backside. View proverb
Moroccan Proverb
An old hen makes strong soup. View proverb
Netherlands Antillean Proverb
However full the house, the hen finds a corner to lay in. (Sierra Leonean Proverb)
A hen does not break her own eggs. View proverb
Swahili Proverb
The hen tells the cock to crow. View proverb
Japanese Proverb
When the hen gets fat, she stops lying. View proverb
Afghan Proverb
It is unwise for one to think that a hen will ever be accorded respect in the land of the hawks. View proverb
African Proverb
Even the hen looks toward heaven when she drinks. View proverb
Albanian Proverb
A cackling hen doesn't always lay. View proverb
American Proverb
A whistling girl and a crowing hen never came to a good end. View proverb
American Proverb
If you are a cock, crow; if a hen, lay eggs. View proverb
American Proverb
A black hen lays a white egg. View proverb
English Proverb
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. (English Proverb)
The scraping hen will get something; the crouching hen nothing. View proverb
Danish Proverb
If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about. View proverb
Danish Proverb
Blind hen also finds grains. View proverb
Danish Proverb
The miller's hen and widower's maid, of want need never be afraid. View proverb
German Proverb
📖 Hen Quotes