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Geese Quotes

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

Mary Oliver
Lonely, Imagination, Wild Geese
Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.9, Beacon Press

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
Thinking, Wild Geese, Goes On

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

John Ray
Wisdom, Gander, Geese

I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!

Dolly Parton
Mother, Looks, Geese
Dolly Parton (2012). “Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You”, p.59, Penguin

Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

Matsuo Basho
Clouds, Lost, Geese
c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk)

Don't kill the golden goose.

Malcolm Mclaren
Golden, Geese

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

Alex O'Loughlin
Fog, Sound, Geese

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Tom Robbins
Writing, Bottles, Geese

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
Happiness, Dream, Wild Geese
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.417, e-artnow

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

Marcus Terentius Varro
Sauce, Gander, Geese
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

Matthew Arnold
Swans, Long, Geese
'The Last Word' (1867)

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

Russell Crowe
Reading, Bumps, Geese

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

Mary Oliver
Despair, Wild Geese, Mines
Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.14, Atlantic Monthly Press

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

George Herbert
Geese
George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Sun, Just Move On, Geese

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

Neil Gaiman
Eggs, Golden, Geese
Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

John Ray
Geese, Feathers
John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.134

I want my chirfugging goose back!

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

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant H. McGill
Wild Imagination, Wild Geese, Materialism

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
Wild Geese, Might, Majesty
C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.69, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

What a dull world if we knew all about geese!

Aldo Leopold
World, Dull, Geese
Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.25, Oxford University Press

Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.

William Shakespeare
Winter, Gone, Wild Geese
William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.70, Broadview Press

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

Mark Tooley
Government, Justice, Wild Geese

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
Wild Geese, Might, Too Much
Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

George R. R. Martin
Brave, Weasels, Geese
George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1589, Bantam

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