Top 100 The Goose Quotes
#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. What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Abbas Ibn Firnas
#3. If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
Russell Crowe
#4. Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander ... It's just an extension of humanity.
John Perry Barlow
#5. The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Charles Spurgeon
#6. 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
#7. Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
Aesop
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.
William L. Shirer
#11. Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.
Aristotle.
#12. If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn't say the fox killed the brains. You'd say the fox offed the goose.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#13. The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.
Adolf Hitler
#14. The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?
Chris Thile
#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. LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose; without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg "pate".
Ambrose Bierce
#17. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
Frederic C. Howe
#19. You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.
H.L. Mencken
#21. 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
#22. What's good for the goose is definitely good for the desperate housewife. Even if this never happened again
James Patterson
#23. True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
Stephen Covey
#25. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#26. I can't wait to taste you." He whispered against my stomach, allowing his hot breath to spill over my chest, sharpen the goose bumps pricking my skin. "I've always wondered what you taste like." I could tell he was speaking mostly to himself, but his words drove me a lot insane.
Penny Reid
#27. The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
#28. To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
Arthur Koestler
#29. The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
Deanna Raybourn
#30. Where do you go when you disappear? What do you see on the other side?"
"Come with me," she said, running her tongue over her teeth. "See for yourself."
The goose flesh rose on my arms. I never asked her again.
Mike Driver
#31. I think only a batsman will be able to tell you about the goose bumps he gets after hitting a perfect cover drive. I'm one of them.
Gautam Gambhir
#32. 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
#33. 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 I've too many things under my behind.
E.B. White
#34. When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
Tom Robbins
#35. Once the forest has been removed and the swamp starts being drained, that organic matter begins to oxidise and give off continuing emissions. It's sort of like the goose that keeps on giving.
Frances Ford Seymour
#36. Step into this experience
with the goose bumps
in your heartbeat
Buddy Wakefield
#37. What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Alice B. Toklas
#38. Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
Benjamin Tucker
#39. Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.
Frank Buckles
#42. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
John Ray
#43. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
John Ray
#44. 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
#45. Funny how what's good for the gander is good for the goose...until it's your goose ~ The Duke of Lancaster
Catherine Hemmerling
#46. 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
#47. The boy does well enough," said Vicente. "A goose does not ask much of life, after all."
"No," she admitted. "Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose.
Gregory Maguire
#48. I winced. "I shouldn't have said that." "You once put goose droppings in my shoes, Alina. A bad mood I can handle." He glanced at me and said, "We all know the burden you're carrying. You don't have to bear it alone." I
Leigh Bardugo
#49. Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
Sylvia Plath
#50. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.
Carlos Wallace
#51. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Noel Gallagher
#52. My best friend was a magpie goose, and my magpie goose would follow me around, and we'd dance in the zoo together. Then I'd be covered in mud!
Bindi Irwin
#53. Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
George Herbert
#54. Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
Aaron Ashmore
#55. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.
Phil Ochs
#56. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.
Billie Holiday
#57. Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#58. I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
Richard Schiff
#59. She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.
Peter Heller
#60. You're giving me goose bumps with your breath on my thighs! Jesus Christ, Nate, are you trying to kill me?" I waggled my eyebrows up at her. "Remember in The Breakfast Club - wait, how old are you?
Mary Calmes
#61. Perhaps the couple got married at 25 and now they're 45 and this is an option. And if a couple is still together, or perhaps finds its way back together, I like to say that it's forever. They belong together, it's a good fit, it's the right pairing. It almost gives me goose bumps.
Volkmar Sigusch
#63. 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 attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#64. The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look?
William Shakespeare
#65. They all got really quiet and started to lick their lips, closing in on Lucy. I started to lick my lips, too, because it's one of those subconcious, contagious things like sneezing, but then I stopped because it just isn't worth it if you forgot to bring ChapStick.
The Harvard Lampoon
#66. The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.
Elizabeth Heiter
#67. Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.
Goose Gossage
#69. Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.
Mark Tooley
#70. My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
Georgette Heyer
#71. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.
Ananda Braxton-Smith
#72. Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
Carlos Wallace
#73. The youth choir is up onstage now, in flowing white gowns, and they're singing something in the key of goose-bumps.
A.S. King
#74. I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
Rebecca Makkai
#75. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.
Walter Lord
#76. V poured himself some Goose and sat down on the bed. The rack was covered with hardened wax, blood, her arousal, and the results of his orgasms. It had been a messy session. But the acceptable ones always were. He
J.R. Ward
#77. It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'
Novak Djokovic
#78. Since that time Saracen had been making a name for himself. That name was not 'Saracen'. Indeed the name was more along the lines of 'that hell-fowl', 'did-you-see-what-it-did-to-my-leg', 'kill-it-kill-it-there-it-goes' or 'what's-that-chirfugging-goose-done-now'.
Frances Hardinge
#79. The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.
Simon Spurr
#80. I too am a poet who has found some favour with the Muse. I too have written songs. I too have heard the shepherds call me bard. But I take it from them with a grain of salt: I have the feeling that I cannot yet compare with Varius or Cinna, but cackle like a goose among melodious swans.
Virgil
#81. The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
George Herbert
#82. Alcohol.
It can give the courage to talk dirty and the permission to go home with the bartender.
It's the alibi. The cover story.
It wasn't really you - you were possessed by Captain Morgan and the Grey Goose.
Unfortunately, I have a very high tolerance for alcohol.
Sucks to be me.
Emma Chase
#83. My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.
Mary E. Pearson
#84. The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.
Chelsea Handler
#85. Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
#86. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.
John Lyly
#87. It was January. Snow was falling; snow had fallen all day. The sky spread like a grey goose's wing from which feathers where falling all over England.
Virginia Woolf
#88. I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.
Stephen King
#89. If breakups are like deaths, then ex sightings are like seeing a ghost: you feel goose bumps, near loss of bladder control, and the sensation of your heart bursting in your throat. The distinction is that the ex is alive.
Daria Snadowsky
#90. I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.
Goose Gossage
#91. The greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one.
Diana Gabaldon
#92. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.
Lindsay Anderson
#93. The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.
James Howell
#94. Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
Calvin Trillin
#95. I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
Goose Gossage
#96. Throughout our lives we will meet individuals who benefit from the assistance of others yet are resentful of receiving another person's goodwill.
Carlos Wallace
#97. But flying across the centuries would have been a hefty job even for a very ironic goose. Crossing the Swedish provinces is far easier
Jostein Gaarder
#98. I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.
William Styron
#99. Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.
Ardyth Kennelly
#100. Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
George R R Martin
