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Why
did the chicken cross the road?
Why do chickens cross roads?
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Wyatt Earp:
- Well, chicken, are you gonna do something, or just stand there and bleed?
George Eastman:
- To take a picture with a Kodak.
Clint Eastwood:
- Cross. Go ahead. Make my day.
Robert Ebert - See at Gene Siskel:
Ecclesiastes:
- For every fowl, there is a season. A time for garlic, a time for sage...
- This bird is meaningless.
- A time to cross, a time to stand still.
- There is no new chicken under the sun.
Thomas Edison:
- She thought it would be an illuminating experience.
Jonathan Edwards:
- It is foredained by God's prescience and omniscience.
Eeyore:
- If it did. Which I doubt. Not that it matters.
- Doesn't matter. Probably will get run over anyway. Just like a chicken. Fal-de-ral and
merriment. I'm going to eat my thistles.
Albert Einstein:
- Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends on your
frame of reference.
- Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon
your frame of reference.
- It was a relatively easy thing to do.
- The true value of a chicken can be found in the degree to which it has attained
liberation from the self.
- The time of its crossing is not constant but its speed most certainly did not exceed the
speed of light.
Michael Eisner:
- To cash in $565,000,000.00 in stock options.
- To see the Mighty Ducks at the pond.
T.S. Eliot:
- It's not that they cross, but that they cross like chickens.
- To leave the place she knew for another place
And to stay there for a while
And then to move onward to a third place.
- Do I dare to cross the road?
- Weialala leia.
Wallala leialala.
Marc Ellis (Auckland Warriors rugby player):
- Coz it was sweatin like a rapist.
Marc Ellis' Dad:
- Marc has authorised me to say he meant no offence to any chickens, rapists, or chickens
that have suffered sexual abuse, or rapists that have suffered chicken abuse.
Harlan Ellison:
- Because he had no beak and must scream.
Emergency Medical Holographic Doctor on U.S.S. Voyager:
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- The chicken did not cross the road; it transcended it.
- Because all life is an experiment and the more experiments you make, the better.
- To be great is to be misunderstood. It embarked on a quest for truth in a society that
is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its roosters.
Emperor (Star Wars):
- Young fool. Only now, after getting hit by a car do you understand.
- And now, young chicken, now you will die.
- Soon the hen-house will be crushed and young chick will be one of us!
- Foolish chicken! Only now, at the end, do you see the head-lights!
Gush Emunim:
- To settle the other side.
Epictetus:
- To enjoy the great festival of life with other hens.
Epicurus:
Paul Erdos:
- It was forced to do so by the chicken-hole principle.
Eric Ericson:
- To resolve internal crires and develop an ego synthesis, and by doing so, become a
functioning part of its society and culture.
Phil Esterhouse:
- I told him, "Lets be careful out there."
Gloria Estefan:
- He's a bad, bad, bad, bad boy.
Estonian saying:
- A chicken that crosses among the cars without fear dies without honor.
E.T.:
- He wanted to call home.
- Chicken, phone home.
Ibn Ezra:
- It was not a specific chicken, it was any chicken (cf. Rashi).
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