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Wild 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

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

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

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

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”

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