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The Italian naturalist, Filippi, discovered in the blood of the silkworms affected by this strange disorder a multitude of cylindrical corpuscles, each about 1/6000th of an inch long. These have been carefully studied by Lebert, and named by him _Panhistophyton_; for the reason that in subjects in which the disease is strongly developed, the corpuscles swarm in every tissue and organ of the body, and even pass into the undeveloped eggs of the female moth. But are these corpuscles causes, or mere concomitants, of the disease? Some naturalists took one view and some another; and it was not until the French Government, alarmed by the continued ravages of the malady, and the inefficiency of the remedies which had been suggested, despatched M. Pasteur to study it, that the question received its final settlement; at a great sacrifice, not only of the time and peace of mind of that eminent philosopher, but, I regret to have to add, of his health.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into decay.--_Smiles._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

H.L. Mencken

Anyone can make an omelet with eggs.  The trick is to make one with none.

Unknown

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

_Spurgeon._

"I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs."

H. L. Mencken

Past the bouncers outside and the girls smoking long, skinny cigarettes, past the tinted glass doors and the jade stone Novikov has put in near the entrance for good luck. Inside, Novikov opens up so anyone can see everyone in almost every corner at any moment, the same theatrical seating as in his Moscow places. But the London Novikov is so much bigger. There are three floors. One floor is “Asian,” all black walls and plates. Another floor is “Italian,” with off-white tiled floors and trees and classic paintings. Downstairs is the bar-cum-club, in the style of a library in an English country house, with wooden bookshelves and rows of hardcover books. It’s a Moscow Novikov restaurant cubed: a series of quotes, of references wrapped in a tinted window void, shorn of their original memories and meanings (but so much colder and more distant than the accessible, colorful pastiche of somewhere like Las Vegas). This had always been the style and mood in the “elite,” “VIP” places in Moscow, all along the Rublevka and in the Garden Ring, where the just-made rich exist in a great void where they can buy anything, but nothing means anything because all the old orders of meaning are gone. Here objects become unconnected to any binding force. Old Masters and English boarding schools and Fabergé eggs all floating, suspended in a culture of zero gravity.

Peter Pomerantsev

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.     _Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._

Five adults, a Leprechaun, a Dragon Prince, and two toddlers required a lot of French toast, but with Allie on one grill and Katie on the other, Graham beating the eggs, Charlie pouring juice, Auntie Gwen setting the table, Joe dealing with the coffee maker, and Jack watching the twins, breakfast got made.

Tanya Huff

They say we are Almost as like as eggs.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2._

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

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If a vast amount of that which, in a piece of human workmanship, we should call skill, is visible in those parts of the organization of a deer to which it owes its ability to escape from beasts of prey, there is at least equal skill displayed in that bodily mechanism of the wolf which enables him to track, and sooner or later to bring down, the deer. Viewed under the dry light of science, deer and wolf are alike admirable; and, if both were non-sentient automata, there would be nothing to qualify our admiration of the action of the one on the other. But the fact that the deer suffers, while the wolf inflicts suffering, engages our moral sympathies. We should call men like the deer innocent and good, men such as the wolf malignant and bad; we should call those who defended the deer and aided him to escape brave and compassionate, and those who helped the wolf in his bloody work base and cruel. Surely, if we transfer these judgments to nature outside the world of man at all, we must do so impartially. In that case, the goodness of the right hand which helps the deer, and wickedness of the left hand which eggs on the wolf, will neutralize one another: and the course of nature will appear to be neither moral nor immoral, but non-moral.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

For I think it will be admitted, that the germs brought to us by meteorites, if any, were not ova of elephants, nor of crocodiles; not cocoa-nuts nor acorns; not even eggs of shell-fish and corals; but only those of the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life. Therefore, since it is proved that, from a very remote epoch of geological time, the earth has been peopled by a continual succession of the higher forms of animals and plants, these either must have been created, or they have arisen by evolution. And in respect of certain groups of animals, the well-established facts of palaeontology leave no rational doubt that they arose by the latter method.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.     _Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97._

NORMAN’S EGG SALAD 4 cups peeled and chopped hard-boiled eggs

Joanne Fluke

Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

_Samuel Smiles._

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, an it were but to roast their eggs.

_Bacon._

The savage, like the child, borrows the capital he needs, and, at any rate, intentionally, does nothing towards repayment; it would plainly be an improper use of the word "produce" to say that his labour in hunting for the roots, or the fruits, or the eggs, or the grubs and snakes, which he finds and eats, "produces" or contributes to "produce" them. The same thing is true of more advanced tribes, who are still merely hunters, such as the Esquimaux. They may expend more labour and skill; but it is spent in destruction.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

Why should not a virgin bear a child? does not a hen lay eggs without a cock? What distinguishes these outwardly from others? and who has told us that the hen may not form the germ as well as the cock?

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

>Eggs and oaths are easily broken.

_Dan. Pr._

>Eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a year, but a friend of thirty years is best.= _It. Pr._ [Greek: Engya; para d' ate]--Be security, and mischief is nigh.

_Thales._

No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs.

Proverb.

Nature is rich; those two eggs you ate to breakfast this morning might, if hatched, have peopled the world with poultry.

_Carlyle._

Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.

_Amer. Pr._

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

ROBERT BURTON. 1576-1640.     _Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sect. 2, Memb. 3._

Redi did not trouble himself much with speculative considerations, but attacked particular cases of what was supposed to be "spontaneous generation" experimentally. Here are dead animals, or pieces of meat, says he; I expose them to the air in hot weather, and in a few days they swarm with maggots. You tell me that these are generated in the dead flesh; but if I put similar bodies, while quite fresh, into a jar, and tie some fine gauze over the top of the jar, not a maggot makes its appearance, while the dead substances, nevertheless, putrefy just in the same way as before. It is obvious, therefore, that the maggots are not generated by the corruption of the meat; and that the cause of their formation must be a something which is kept away by gauze. But gauze will not keep away aeriform bodies, or fluids. This something must therefore, exist in the form of solid particles too big to get through the gauze. Nor is one long left in doubt what these solid particles are; for the blow-flies, attracted by the odour of the meat, swarm round the vessel, and, urged by a powerful but in this case misleading instinct, lay eggs out of which maggots are immediately hatched, upon the gauze. The conclusion, therefore, is unavoidable; the maggots are not generated by the meat, but the eggs which give rise to them are brought through the air by the flies.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

Oatmeal • High-fiber cold cereal • Nonfat or low-fat milk • Nonfat or low-fat yogurt • Nonfat or low-fat cottage cheese • Eggs/Egg whites • Natural peanut butter or other nut butters • Whole-wheat English muffin • Fruit • Crushed walnuts or almonds

Keri Gans

Aus ungelegten Eiern werden spat junge Huhner=--Chickens are long in coming out of unlaid eggs.

_Ger. Pr._

Put not all your eggs in one basket.

_Dut. Pr._

Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it.

_Amer. Pr._

My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs.

Proverb.

We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos. In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.--_George Eliot._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

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

Proverb.

But the sacrifice has not been in vain. It is now certain that this devastating, cholera-like Pébrine is the effect of the growth and multiplication of the _Panhistophyton_ in the silkworm. It is contagious and infectious, because the corpuscles of the _Panhistophyton_ pass away from the bodies of the diseased caterpillars, directly or indirectly, to the alimentary canal of healthy silkworms in their neighbourhood; it is hereditary because the corpuscles enter into the eggs while they are being formed, and consequently are carried within them when they are laid; and for this reason, also? it presents the very singular peculiarity of being inherited only on the mother's side. There is not a single one of all the apparently capricious and unaccountable phenomena presented by the Pébrine, but has received its explanation from the fact that the disease is the result of the presence of the microscopic organism, _Panhistophyton_.

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600-1680.     _Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624._

He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.

_Dut. Pr._

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged…’Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong. I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.’ [Speech, Curry Commercial College, Pittsburgh, June 23, 1885. Quotations from Encarta, http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556882/investment_concentrate_your_energy_thought_and_.html ]

Carnegie, Andrew.

BONNIE BROWNIE COOKIE BARS Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position. 4 one-ounce squares semi-sweet chocolate (or 3/4 cup chocolate chips) 3/4 cup butter (one and a half sticks) 1½ cups white (granulated) sugar 3 beaten eggs (just whip them up in a glass with a fork) 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup flour (pack it down in the cup when you measure it) 1/2 cup chopped cashews 1/2 cup chopped butterscotch chips 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli) Prepare a 9-inch by 13-inch cake pan by lining it with a piece of foil large enough to flap over the sides. Spray the foil-lined pan with Pam or another nonstick cooking spray. Microwave the chocolate squares and butter in a microwave-safe mixing bowl on HIGH for 1 minute. Stir. (Since chocolate frequently maintains its shape even when melted, you have to stir to make sure.) If it’s not melted, microwave for an additional 20 seconds and stir again. Repeat if necessary. Stir the sugar into the chocolate mixture. Feel the bowl. If it’s not so hot it’ll cook the eggs, add them now, stirring thoroughly. Mix in the vanilla extract. Mix in the flour, and stir just until it’s moistened. Put the cashews, butterscotch chips, and chocolate chips in the bowl of a food processor, and chop them together with the steel blade. (If you don’t have a food processor, you don’t have to buy one for this recipe—just chop everything up as well as you can with a sharp knife.) Mix in the chopped ingredients, give a final stir by hand, and spread the batter out in your prepared pan. Smooth the top with a rubber spatula. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes. Cool the Bonnie Brownie Cookie Bars in the pan on a metal rack. When they’re thoroughly cool, grasp the edges of the foil and lift the brownies out of the pan. Place them facedown on a cutting board, peel the foil off the back, and cut them into brownie-sized pieces. Place the squares on a plate and dust lightly with powdered sugar if you wish. Hannah’s Note: If you’re a chocoholic, or if you’re making these for Mother, frost them with Neverfail Fudge Frosting before you cut them.

Joanne Fluke

Astutior coccyge=--More crafty than the cuckoo (who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest).

Proverb.

I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.

        -- H. L. Mencken

Fortune Cookie

A chicken is an egg's way of producing more eggs.

Fortune Cookie

May a Misguided Platypus lay its Eggs in your Jockey Shorts.

Fortune Cookie

Dear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expression, "Part of

this complete breakfast".  The way it comes up is, my 5-year-old will be

watching TV cartoon shows in the morning, and they'll show a commercial for

a children's compressed breakfast compound such as "Froot Loops" or "Lucky

Charms", and they always show it sitting on a table next to some actual food

such as eggs, and the announcer always says: "Part of this complete

breakfast".  Don't that really mean, "Adjacent to this complete breakfast",

or "On the same table as this complete breakfast"?  And couldn't they make

essentially the same claim if, instead of Froot Loops, they put a can of

shaving cream there, or a dead bat?

Answer: Yes.

        -- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's"

Fortune Cookie

The important thing to remember about walking on eggs is not to hop.

Fortune Cookie

"I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs."

        -- H. L. Mencken

Fortune Cookie

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket"--which is

but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention;" but the wise

man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET."

        -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Fortune Cookie

You can't break eggs without making an omelet.

Fortune Cookie

Probable-Possible, my black hen,

She lays eggs in the Relative When.

She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now

Because she's unable to postulate How.

        -- Frederick Winsor

Fortune Cookie

Anyone can make an omelet with eggs.  The trick is to make one with none.

Fortune Cookie

Commitment, n.:

    [The difference between involvement and] Commitment can be

    illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs.  The chicken was

    involved, the pig was committed.

Fortune Cookie

A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs.

Fortune Cookie

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire,

and it were but to roast their eggs.

        -- Francis Bacon

Fortune Cookie

    [I plan] to see, hear, touch, and destroy everything in my path,

including beets, rutabagas, and most random vegetables, but excluding yams,

as I am absolutely terrified of yams...

    Actually, I think my fear of yams began in my early youth, when many

of my young comrades pelted me with same for singing songs of far-off lands

and deep blue seas in a language closely resembling that of the common sow.

My psychosis was further impressed into my soul as I reached adolescence,

when, while skipping through a field of yams, light-heartedly tossing flowers

into the stratosphere, a great yam-picking machine tore through the fields,

pursuing me to the edge of the great plantation, where I escaped by diving

into a great ditch filled with a mixture of water and pig manure, which may

explain my tendency to scream, "Here come the Martians!  Hide the eggs!" every

time I have pork.  But I digress.  The fact remains that I cannot rationally

deal with yams, and pigs are terrible conversationalists.

Fortune Cookie

Eggnog is a traditional holiday drink invented by the English.  Many

people wonder where the word "eggnog" comes from.  The first syllable

comes from the English word "egg", meaning "egg".  I don't know where

the "nog" comes from.

To make eggnog, you'll need rum, whiskey, wine gin and, if they are in

season, eggs...

Fortune Cookie

FORTUNE'S FAVORITE RECIPES: #8

    Christmas Rum Cake

1 or 2 quarts rum        1 tbsp. baking powder

1 cup butter            1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. sugar            1 tbsp. lemon juice

2 large eggs            2 cups brown sugar

2 cups dried assorted fruit    3 cups chopped English walnuts

Before you start, sample the rum to check for quality.  Good, isn't it?  Now

select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc.  Check the rum again.  It

must be just right.  Be sure the rum is of the highest quality.  Pour one cup

of rum into a glass and drink it as fast as you can.  Repeat. With an electric

mixer, beat one cup butter in a large fluffy bowl.  Add 1 seaspoon of tugar

and beat again.  Meanwhile, make sure the rum teh absolutely highest quality.

Sample another cup.  Open second quart as necessary.  Add 2 orge laggs, 2 cups

of fried druit and beat untill high.  If the fried druit gets stuck in the

beaters, just pry it loose with a screwdriver.  Sample the rum again, checking

for toncisticity.  Next sift 3 cups of baking powder, a pinch of rum, a

seaspoon of toda and a cup of pepper or salt (it really doesn't matter).

Sample some more.  Sift 912 pint of lemon juice.  Fold in schopped butter and

strained chups.  Add bablespoon of brown gugar, or whatever color you have.

Mix mell.  Grease oven and turn cake pan to 350 gredees and rake until

poothtick comes out crean.

Fortune Cookie

Peanut Blossoms

4 cups sugar           16 tbsp. milk

4 cups brown sugar     4 tsp. vanilla

4 cups shortening      14 cups flour

8 eggs                 4 tsp. soda

4 cups peanut butter   4 tsp. salt

Shape dough into balls.  Roll in sugar and bake on ungreased cookie

sheet at 375 F. for 10-12 minutes.  Immediately top each cookie with a

Hershey's kiss or star pressing down firmly to crack cookie.  Makes a

heck of a lot.

Fortune Cookie

The common cormorant, or shag,

Lays eggs inside a paper bag;

The reason, you will see, no doubt,

Is to keep the lightning out.

But what these unobservant birds

Have failed to notice is that herds

Of bears may come with buns

And steal the bags to hold the crumbs.

Fortune Cookie

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs -- but it is amazing

how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.

        -- Professor Charles P. Issawi

Fortune Cookie

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!

All the king's horses,

And all the king's men,

Had scrambled eggs for breakfast again!

Fortune Cookie

While we were comforting ourselves by the fire after our meal, the Jack--who was sitting in a corner, and who had a bloated pair of shoes on, which he had exhibited while we were eating our eggs and bacon, as interesting relics that he had taken a few days ago from the feet of a drowned seaman washed ashore--asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide? When I told him No, he said she must have gone down then, and yet she "took up too," when she left there.

Charles Dickens     Great Expectations

Father Zossima sat down on a very old-fashioned mahogany sofa, covered with leather, and made his visitors sit down in a row along the opposite wall on four mahogany chairs, covered with shabby black leather. The monks sat, one at the door and the other at the window. The divinity student, the novice, and Alyosha remained standing. The cell was not very large and had a faded look. It contained nothing but the most necessary furniture, of coarse and poor quality. There were two pots of flowers in the window, and a number of holy pictures in the corner. Before one huge ancient ikon of the Virgin a lamp was burning. Near it were two other holy pictures in shining settings, and, next them, carved cherubims, china eggs, a Catholic cross of ivory, with a Mater Dolorosa embracing it, and several foreign engravings from the great Italian artists of past centuries. Next to these costly and artistic engravings were several of the roughest Russian prints of saints and martyrs, such as are sold for a few farthings at all the fairs. On the other walls were portraits of Russian bishops, past and present.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Brothers Karamazov

AFTER dinner all the gang turned out to hunt for turtle eggs on the bar. They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands. Sometimes they would take fifty or sixty eggs out of one hole. They were perfectly round white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. They had a famous fried-egg feast that night, and another on Friday morning.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

39:14. When she leaveth her eggs on the earth, thou perhaps wilt warm them in the dust.

THE BOOK OF JOB     OLD TESTAMENT

"Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This bishop's prose shocks me; I want to eat eggs without being permitted. Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not wasting myself, I'm getting a start; and if I tore down that charge, Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite."

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'

Lewis Carroll     Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

10:14. And my hand hath found the strength of the people as a nest; and as eggs are gathered, that are left, so have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or made the least noise.

THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS     OLD TESTAMENT

Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of brandy and water within his reach.

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

22:6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young:

THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY     OLD TESTAMENT

This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'

Lewis Carroll     Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"The jeweller, meanwhile, was humming a song as he stood warming his back at the fire La Carconte had kindled to dry the wet garments of her guest; and this done, she next occupied herself in arranging his supper, by spreading a napkin at the end of the table, and placing on it the slender remains of their dinner, to which she added three or four fresh-laid eggs. Caderousse had once more parted with his treasure--the banknotes were replaced in the pocket-book, the gold put back into the bag, and the whole carefully locked in the cupboard. He then began pacing the room with a pensive and gloomy air, glancing from time to time at the jeweller, who stood reeking with the steam from his wet clothes, and merely changing his place on the warm hearth, to enable the whole of his garments to be dried.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

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