Quotes About Goose Eggs

#1. Gone are the days when the old country doctor would drive out to your house and amputate your infected leg for a basket of goose eggs and a rhubarb pie.

Cuthbert Soup

#2. I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

Todd Rundgren

#3. I've rattled around long enough to have learned one thing: the universe is cold, and cruel, and violent - but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love.

James Roberts

#4. I'm so loyal, I haven't bathed in weeks!

Patrick Star

#5. To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

Jeb Bush

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

Neil Gaiman

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 100 trillion is 100 followed by 12 zeroes

Andrew Ashwin

#10. If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

Stephen Covey

#12. When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

Margaret Thatcher

#13. The two partners in a relationship also need to have some similar interests in addition to a similar life view.

John Friend

#14. I'm not that professional.

Andy Richter

#15. Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Murray Rothbard

#16. 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

#17. Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty - it makes them indispensable -

Clive James

#18. If I believed in a god, it would be the god of women's asses.

Shay Savage

#19. The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

Louis D. Brandeis

#20. Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

Julie Otsuka

#21. The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Charles Spurgeon

#22. 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