“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”
“My Chicken can do a special trick!"And what is that?"She can lay an egg!"And what's so special about THAT?!"Well, Can YOU lay an egg?”
“If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow”
“Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.”
“States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...”
“Now the moon of the Aztecs is at the zenith, and all the world lies still. Full and white, the white of bones, the white of a skull; blistering the center of the sky well with its throbbing, not touching it on any side. Now the patio is a piebald place of black and white, burning in the downward-teeming light. Not a leaf moves, not a petal falls, in this fierce amalgam. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")”