Goose Quotes

143 Goose quotes by 122 unique authors

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose? — Todd Rundgren
Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. — Phil Ochs
Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids. — Neil Young
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. — Aesop
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
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
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? — Martial
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When… — William Shakespeare
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. — George Herbert
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. — Thomas Fuller
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever. — Noel Gallagher
What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.'… — Ann Coulter
It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' — Novak Djokovic
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. — Aldo Leopold
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. — Tom Robbins
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. — Vin Scully
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. — Charles Spurgeon
If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway? — Will Rogers
No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as… — C.S. Lewis
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. — Djuna Barnes
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden… — Joseph Heller

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