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Pierre de Fermat:
I just don't have room here to give the full explanation...
Gerald R. Ford:
It probably fell from an airplane; couldn't stop its forward momentum
Michel Foucault:
It did so because the discourse of crossing the road left it no choice-- the police state was oppressing it.
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!
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.
Immanuel Kant:
Because it was a duty.
Martin Luther King:
It had a dream.
James Tiberius Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Jacques Lacan:
Because of its desire for _object a_.
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.
H. P. Lovecraft:
To escape the eldritch, cthonic, rugose, polypous, indescribably horrible abomination not from our space-time continuum.
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 col- laborationist Belgian newspaper during the early years of World War II.
Manuel:
Is not a chicken. Is Siberian hamster.
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.
Gregor Mendel:
To get various strains of roads.
John Milton:
To justify the ways of God to men.
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.
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 f___ing wanted to. That's the f___ing reason.
Ted Nugent:
"To prove to the opossum that it _can_ be done."
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....
Thomas Pane:
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?
J. Danforth Quayle:
Ite sawe ae potatoee.
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.
Ronald Reagan:
Well, I forget.
Georg Friedrich Riemann:
The answer appears in Dirichlet's lectures.
Carl Rodgers:
Why do _you_ think the chicken crossed the road?
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 transporter 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.
The Sphinx:
You tell me.
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.
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