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. In the rain.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

NELSON MANDELA Never again, will the chicken be questioned for crossing the road. This is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

GRANDPA SIMPSON: In my day, we didn’t ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BISHOP TUTU: We need a society where people will learn to forgive all the chickens that crossed the road. However, forgiveness will be granted to chickens that convince the nation that their reasons for crossing the road were politically motivated

KARL MARX: It was a historical inevitability.

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

RONALD REAGAN: What chicken?

TONY LEON: People should stop blaming everything on the legacy of ‘the chicken that crossed the road’. The chicken never willingly crossed the road – the circumstances at that time forced the chicken to cross the road.

CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

FOX MULDER: You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

SIGMUND FREUD: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

THABO MBEKI: We need to establish if really there is a connection between the chicken and the road.

BILL GATES: I have just released e-Chicken 2002, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your cheque book. And, Internet Explorer is an inextricable part of the Chicken.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What do you mean by “chicken”? Could you define “chicken” please?

GEORGE W. BUSH: I don’t think I should have to answer that question.
PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS: The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the “black man” in order to trample him and keep him down.
HANSIE CRONJE: Satan made him do it.

ROBERT MUGABE: We should really try to understand this chicken. As Hansie pointed out – Satan made him do it. We all know how devious Satan can be .

COLONEL SANDERS (KFC): I missed one?