“Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.” HumansMayDoeIdeasOrderAnimalProduceCreaturesConsciousAccountsPraiseTablesLeavingValuableEggsChickensBreakfastComplicationElementalsPraise God Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.” MaySilenceSpeechRidiculousEggsSilence IsBarrenBrooding Author:George Eliot
“SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.” GivingMayFactsHabitEqualBallsSacredAncientFavorsFamiliarImmortalityEggsPriestsPeculiarReverenceInferiorsBugsSanctityPriesthoodBeetlesAncient Egyptian Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition