“ Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married. ”
- Wall Street Journal- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. ”
- Benjamin Tucker- Copy
- 2K
“ Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. ”
- Lee Loevinger- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of Ungentlemanly, Not fair and all the rest. ”
- Harold Macmillan- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. ”
- Ted Nugent- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A 6-Kleenex, 40-goose-bumper shot in the warm, golden tones of a cereal commercial. ”
- Ed Turner- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are the sweetest lays that I can bring, So screams a goose where swans melodious sing. ”
- James Beattie- Copy
- 371
“ Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal? Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories, And cackling save the monarchies of Tories? ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.4K
“ To seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase, a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be. ”
- Ada Bethune- Copy
- 660
“ The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 2.9K
“ One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. ”
- Aldo Leopold- Copy
- 600
“ A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3K
“ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing. ”
- Jean Baptiste Colbert- Copy
- 1K
“ PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up. ”
- Charles Foundyller of Daratech- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We were young rockabilly when we were younger. So the fact that there was kind of an emotional, goose-bump, bittersweet quality was really nice for our voices. So it was a bit of a new blend to soften up this way. ”
- Art Garfunkel- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures. ”
- Jack Valenti- Copy
- 927
“ How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown. ”
- Elisabeth Kubler Ross- Copy
- 3.4K
“ When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's report, Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky; So at his sight away his fellows fly, And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls; He murder cries and help from Athens calls. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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