Why did the chicken cross the road?

Aristotle

To actualize its potential.

Roseanne Barr

Urrrrrp. What chicken?

George Bush

To face a kinder, gentler thousand points of headlights.

Julius Caesar

To come, to see, to conquer.

Candide

To cultivate its garden.

Bill the Cat

Oop Ack.

Buddha

If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.

Moses

Know ye that it is unclean to eat the chicken that has crossed the road, and that the chicken that crosseth the road doth so for its own preservation.

Joseph Conrad

Mistah Chicken, he dead.

Howard Cosell

It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapiens pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurrence.

Salvador Dali

The Fish.

Darwin

It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Thomas Dequincy

Because it ran out of opium.

Rene Descartes

It had sufficient reason to believe it was dreaming anyway.

Emily Dickinson

Because it could not stop for death.

Bob Dylan

How many roads must one chicken cross?

TS Eliot

Weialala leia / Wallala leialala.

TS Eliot (revisited)

Do I dare to cross the road?

Epicures

For fun.

Paul Erdos

It was forced to do so by the chicken-hole principle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Basil Fawlty

Oh, don't mind that chicken. It's from Barcelona.

Gerald R. Ford

It probably fell from an airplane and couldn't stop its forward momentum.

Sigmund Freud

The chicken obviously was female and obviously interpreted the pole on which the crosswalk sign was mounted as a phallic symbol of which she was envious, selbstverstaendlich.

Robert Frost

To cross the road less traveled by.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It probably crossed to get a better look at my legs, which, thank goodness, are good, dahling.

Gilligan

The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail the chicken would be lost, the chicken would be lost!

Johann Friedrich von Goethe

The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway

To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg

We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Adolf Hitler

It needed Lebensraum.

David Hume

Out of custom and habit.

Saddam Hussein

This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Lee Iacocca

It found a better car, which was on the other side of the road.

John Paul Jones

It has not yet begun to cross!

Martin Luther King

It had a dream.

James Tiberius Kirk

To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Stan Laurel

I'm sorry, Ollie. It escaped when I opened the run.

Leda

Are you sure it wasn't Zeus dressed up as a chicken? He's into that kind of thing, you know.

Gottfried Von Leibniz

In this best possible world, the road was made for it to cross.

Groucho Marx

Chicken? What's all this talk about chicken? Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the eggs.

Karl Marx

To escape the bourgeois middle-class struggle.

Karl Marx

It was a historical inevitability.

Gregor Mendel

To get various strains of roads.

John Milton

To justify the ways of God to men.

Alfred E. Neumann

What? Me worry?

Sir Isaac Newton

Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

Jack Nicholson

'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Thomas Paine

Out of common sense.

Michael Palin

Nobody expects the banished inky chicken!

Wolfgang Pauli

There already was a chicken on the other side of the road.

Pyrrho the Skeptic

What road?

Ronald Reagan

I forget.

Georg Friedrich Riemann

The answer appears in Dirichlet's lectures.

John Sununu

The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.

Mr. Scott

'Cos ma wee transport0er beam was na functioning properly. Ah canna work miracles, Captain!

William Shakespeare

I don't know why, but methinks I could rattle off a hundred-line soliloquy without much ado.

Sisyphus

Was it pushing a rock, too?

Socrates

To pick up some hemlock at the corner druggist.

Mr. T

If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!

Margaret Thatcher

There was no alternative.

Dylan Thomas

To not go (sic) gentle into that good night.

Henry David Thoreau

To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.

Mark Twain

The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

George Washington

Actually it crossed the Delaware with me back in 1776. But most history books don't reveal that I bunked with a birdie during the duration.

Mae West

I invited it to come up and see me sometime.

Walt Whitman

To cluck the song of itself.

William Wordsworth

To have something to recollect in tranquility.

Molly Yard

It was a hen!

Henny Youngman

Take this chicken ... please.

Zeno of Elea

To prove it could never reach the other side.

Paul de Man

The chicken did not really cross the road because one side and the other are not really opposites in the first place.

Paul de Man

(uncovered after his death) So no one would find out it wrote for a collaborationist Belgian newspaper during the early years of World War II.

Jacques Lacan

Because of its desire for *object a*.

Roland Barthes

The chicken wanted to expose the myth of the road,

Michel Foucault

It did so because the discourse of crossing the road left it no choice-the police state was oppressing it.

Jacques Derrida

What is the *differance?* The chicken was merely deferring from one side of the road to other. And how do we get the idea of the chicken in the first place? Does it exist outside of language?

Camille Paglia

It was drawn by the subconscious chthonian power of the feminine which men can never understand, to cross the road and focus itself on its task. Hens are not capable of doing this-their minds do not work that way. Feminism tries vainly to pretend there is no real difference between them, falsely following Rousseau. But de Sade has proved....

Ayn Rand

It was crossing the road *because of its own rational choice to do so. There cannot be a collective unconscious; desires are unique to each individual.

Immanuel Kant

Because it was a duty.

James Joyce

Once upon a time a nicens little chicken named baby tuckoo crossed the road and met a moocow coming down...

James Joyce

To forge in the smithy of its soul the uncreated conscience of its race.

Leopold Bloom

Wonder why chickens cross roads. Must be some law. Migration maybe. Mrs. Marion Bloom.

Molly Bloom

the chicken crossed the road well Poldy I dont know why why do you worry about such stupid bloody things O speaking of stupid bloody things here it comes again damn it its only been three weeks I wonder is there something wrong with me yes

The Sphinx

You tell me.

William Faulkner

It's grandmother is a fish.

Plato

For the greater good.

Oliver North

National Security was at stake.

Albert Einstein

Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Darwin

It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Werner Heisenberg

We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

Saddam Hussein

This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.

Jack Nicholson

'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

Ronald Reagan

I forget.

Mark Twain

The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.

Captain James T. Kirk

To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Salvador Dali

Fish.

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Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.

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