Dr. Seuss : Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed it, I’ve not been told!
Emily Dickinson : Because it could not stop for death.
Ernest Hemingway : To die. In the rain.
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.
Oliver Stone : The question is not, ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ but rather, ‘Who was crossing the road at the same time, whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?’
Ralph Waldo Emerson : It didn’t cross the road; it transcended it.
Robert Frost : To reach the sidewalk less travelled by.
William Shakespeare : I don’t know why, but methinks I could rattle off a hundred-line soliloquy without much ado
George Orwell : Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was crossing the road of his own free will, when he was really only serving their interests.
Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Grandma: In my day, we didnt ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.
Fox Mulder: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?
Dana Scully: "I know the chicken crossed the road, but it just doesn't make sense why would the chicken risk crossing the traffic?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. Alone. In the rain.
Mary Shelley: "To build a perfect chicken from the discarded entrails of convict chickens."
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
Martha Stewart: A properly dressed chicken may cross the road, and thats a Good Thing but be sure to sell your chicken stock if you hear any rumors about oncoming traffic.
Sigmund Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. . . . It depends on what the meaning of chicken is.
Hillary Clinton: Im proud to say that that chicken was a constituent of mine here in the great state of New York, and a Yankees fan.
Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
Louisa May Alcott: "Because Marmee thought the chickens across the road could use a little more feed in the cold winter, during the war."
Bill Gates: I have just released e-Chicken 2000, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook and Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of e-Chicken.
Colonel Sanders: I missed one?
Condoleezza Rice: That chicken will cross the road only when this government decides that régime change is in its long-term strategic interest.
Rush Limbaugh: I don't know why the chicken crossed the road, but I'll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I'll bet someone out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this?