Geese Quotes - Page 3

• If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

  Russell Crowe

  Reading, Bumps, Factors

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• It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Swans, Profound, Wells

  Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton

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• How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Sun, Just Move On, Knows

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• The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

  George M. Humphrey

  Eggs, Golden, Consumers

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• What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Sauce, Gander

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

  Donna Lopiano

  Opportunity, Ice Cream, Athletic

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• If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.

  George Herbert

  White, Should, Flocks

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.341

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• I want my chirfugging goose back!

  Frances Hardinge

  Want

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Turkeys, Ducks

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• Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Thinking, Advice, Foxes

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• Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eggs, Golden, Stills

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• 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

  Food, Cooking, Portugal

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.185, University of Georgia Press

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• Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Sauce, Laissez Faire, Poor

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Mother, Used, Stravinsky

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• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Lonely

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Stories

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Teamwork, Canada

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• Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Beautiful, Attitude, Teenager

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• Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Eggs, People, Golden

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Feb 07, 2013

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Adventure, Gossip, Gentleman

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  "Mark Twain’s Book of Animals".

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• Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.

  Nancy Mitford

  Dog, Bird, Needs

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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