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Geese Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn…
- Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false…
- It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun,…
- Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but…
- The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time…
More Geese Quotes
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps. — David Beckham
- I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose. — Clarence Darrow
- A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft
- Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way. — William Shakespeare
- Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. — Aesop
- Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing… — Frances Ford Seymour
- When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you. — Frank Shorter
- It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. — John Lyly
- Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
- The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight… — H. L. Mencken
- I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about… — Wystan Hugh Auden