Top 23 Wild Goose Quotes
#1. 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
#2. During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to go on a lot more before I hang up my waders
John D. Voelker
#3. 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
#4. A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#6. The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant H. McGill
#7. The early Celtic Christians called the Holy Spirit 'the wild goose.' And the reason why is they knew that you cannot tame him.
John Eldredge
#8. In these pages, I don't beat around the bush to say shit I want to say. I don't send people on wild goose chases looking for clues. I keep things straight. So don't go trying to interpret mess, alright?
Isla Wright
#9. An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.
Michael Leunig
#10. 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
#11. A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
Lin Yutang
#12. 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 die here.
C.S. Lewis
#13. Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.
Mark Tooley
#14. That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl
Diana Gabaldon
#15. There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
C. Everett Koop
#16. The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Edmund Morris
#17. 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
#19. You know how people are always threatenin' to shove this or that up someone's ass, but they never really do it? Well, now there's a new story gonna be told 'round the fire: 'How Coyote Shoved An Arrow Up A Fallen Angel's Ass.
Kevin Hearne
#20. More money has been lost because of four words than at the point of a gun. Those words are 'This time is different.
Carmen M. Reinhart
#21. The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.
Annie Proulx
#22. Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her
Liane Moriarty
#23. But who am I to judge? We're all fighting our own battles, the best way we can.
Richelle Mead
