He is as like one, as one egg is like another.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii.
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of
meat.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of
religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of
democracy.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.
