Top 25 Golden Egg Sayings
#1. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell
#2. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#3. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Noel Gallagher
#4. Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.
Ken Scott
#5. Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.
Richard Diaz
#6. Lay a golden egg.
After you built a nest,
You wait for a leg.
And you land next.
Now you hope and pray.
Expect for the best.
Go on with no delay.
Get it right at last.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#7. Because the golden egg gleamed
in my basket once, though my childhood
became an immense sheet of darkening water
I was Noah, and I was his ark,
and there were two of every animal inside me
Mark Doty
#8. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#9. It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same instant of time made me flail the water with my paddle like a madman.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Throsby Bridges
#11. We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference
Thomas Bernhard
#12. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#13. Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
Jason Alexander
#14. It is illegal to be a member of an organization that is challenging the constitution by armed force.
Meles Zenawi
#15. We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.
Nickolas Ashford
#16. Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#17. John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Jay Leno
#18. A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.
Neal H. Moritz
#20. Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs
Margaret Thatcher
#21. Imagine! How the world has changed in only twenty years! Only evil stays the same, year after year.
Kaimana Wolff
#23. Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?
Frank McCourt
#24. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?
Constance Bowman Reid
#25. To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
Stephen R. Covey
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