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Quotes of the Day for 9 September 2003 - Chicken

Harland David Sanders was born at Henryville, Indiana on this day in 1890. At age six his father died and his mother went to work, so Harland started doing all the cooking for the family. He dropped out of grade school to pursue a series of odd jobs, he was a street-car conductor, a soldier in China at sixteen, a railroad fireman, justice of the peace (after a correspondence course in law), he operated an Ohio River ferry line, sold insurance, and operated a service station. At the service station, he served food to hungry travelers in his quarters above the station. When folks started coming for the food instead of the service, he moved to the hotel across the street where he could seat 140. In 1935 he was made a Kentucky Colonel, the states highest honor, for his contribution to the state's cuisine. His eleven secret herbs and spices, and his pressure-frying method, proved popular. The company he founded serves about six billion pieces of chicken every year, so I'll serve up six Chicken quotes.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
     - Arnold H. Glasgow

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
     - Bernard Malamud

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
     - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
     - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
     - Samuel Butler, 1612 - 1680

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