Why did author say the chicken crossed the road ?

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So why did the author, poet (or others) say chicken crossed the road?

AYN RAND: So it could keep all its eggs. It doesn't owe that farmer a damn thing!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Crosseth the road at thine own peril for there are portents in the heavens which inform against thee. No boon shall thy labors inherit, but a fricassee thou shalt become.

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 I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY - To die alone, and in the rain, and before it had molted, and with all its chicks looking on in horror.

Others ? ...... (feel free to use people already mentioned by other posters)

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Aristotle : To actualize its potential.

Julius Caesar: To come, to see, to conquer.

Candide : To cultivate its garden.

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.

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.

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HA HA! Hilarious, guys!

Beethoven: Why did he cross? Why did he cross?
Why did he cross, why did he cross, why did he cross?
Why did he cross, why did he cross, why did he cross?
Why did the chicken cross the road, why did the chicken cross the road, why did the chick-en cross?

-- August 23rd, 2015, 7:04 pm --

WHY DID HE CROSS?

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Plato: For the greater good.

Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.

Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration,
as a chicken which has the daring and courage to
boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom
among them has the strength to contend with such a
paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its
pancreas.

Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered
within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
is DEAD, DEAD, DEAD!

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment
would let it take.

Douglas Adams: Forty-two.

Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road
gazes also across you.

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Now I once heard tell of a chicken who claimed to have crossed a road, but chickens are notorious liars; therefore, I have always reflected upon this claim with suspicion.
- Mark Twain

Harry Potter: Hermione, is that a chicken I see crossing the road?
Hermione Granger: It may interest you to know Harold that what you see is Ronald Weasely. He has accidentally transformed himself once again through his inane, wand-wielding incompetence.
- J.K. Rowling

Ask not why the chicken crossed the road, but what you can do to help him cross the road.
- John F. Kennedy (Profiles In Courage)

Half a league
Half a league
Half a league onward
Crossing the highway of death
Strode six hundred chickens.
- Alfred Tennyson

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To get to the other side. - Captain Obvious

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Anne Frank: Why, to escape the Nazis, of course!
(Sorry if that was in poor taste.)

Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a chicken is just a chicken.

Carl Jung: The chicken's voyage personifies the archetypal quest of the hero within us all.

L. Frank Baum: To get to Oz.

Confucius: Fools rush in where chickens dare to tread.

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Sherlock Holmes: Did you take note of anything else?

Dr. Mortimer: Yes. I noticed footprints which crossed the road.

Sherlock Holmes: Were they the footprints of a man or a woman?

Dr. Mortimer: Mr Holmes ..... they were the footprints of a gigantic chicken.

- Arthur Conan Doyle (The Chicken Of The Baskervilles)

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Because he was smarter than Pharoh's army - Moses

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I had forgotten all about this thread till Bookowlie reminded me of it.

Let's see ....

Despite her former distaste of the rooster she found herself strangely drawn to to his finer qualities once having crossed the road and observing his estate known as Henberly.
- Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

Is there, is there balm in Giliad? Tell me, tell me, I implore.
Quote the chicken, Nevermore.
Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend (I shrieked upstarting)
Cross the road from whence thou cometh - quit the bust above my door.
Quote the chicken - Nevermore.
-Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven)

The Count crossed the road and entered Mina's bedroom through the window and was soon hovering over her sleeping form. The Diabolical Presence then lifted his cape and transformed himself into a chicken which alighted upon Mina's pillow and began pecking the top of her head.
- Bram Stoker (Dracula)

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There really is no chicken; nor any road. ~ Depak Chopera

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I was hoping you would go a little deeper than that ~ Sherlock

(By the way, are we supposed to make up quotes by famous people according to the way they would answer the chicken-crossing-the-road question? Or did these people actually say all this?)

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It can be either based on what I have seen.