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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. -- Matthew Arnold
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring. -- Aldo Leopold
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. -- Van Wyck Brooks
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. -- Ted Nugent
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this. -- Laozi
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net. -- George Herbert
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations. -- E. B. White
ChinaWhales followthe whale-roads.Geese, roads of magnetized air.To go great distance,exactitudes matter.Yet how oftenthe heartthat set out for Peruarrives in China,Steering hard.consulting the chartsthe whole journey." -- Jane Hirshfield
Don't kill the golden goose. -- Malcolm Mclaren
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. -- George M. Humphrey
The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps. -- David Beckham
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. -- Thomas Fuller
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. -- Clifton Webb
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully -- Gyorgy Ligeti
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. -- Charles Spurgeon
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. -- Jim Crace
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. -- Lao Tzu
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic. -- Anna Chancellor
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. -- Benjamin Tucker
There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women. -- Donna Lopiano
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
Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. -- Aldo Leopold
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
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. -- Anna Howard Shaw
To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size. -- Kate Winslet
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen. -- Alice B. Toklas
...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things. -- Mary Oliver
Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it. -- Kate Winslet
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. -- Meriwether Lewis
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. -- Alex Ferguson
Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove. -- Teju Cole
I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often. -- Lori Foster
let geese -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. -- George Herbert
Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud -- Matsuo Basho
What a dull world if we knew all about geese! -- Aldo Leopold
Calligraphy of geese against the sky- the moon seals it. -- Yosa Buson
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way. -- William Shakespeare
If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. -- George Herbert
For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television. -- Aldo Leopold
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. -- Shannon Hale
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. -- Alex Ferguson
...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow... -- John Geddes
my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow -- John Geddes
I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm. -- Jimmy Carter
Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. -- W. H. Auden
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing. -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let's call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Getting up too early is a vice habitual in horned owls, stars, geese, and freight trains. Some hunters acquire it from geese, and some coffee pots from hunters. -- Aldo Leopold
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
Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get. -- Shannon Hale
Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days. -- Nancy Mitford
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable...the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street...by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese. -- Hal Borland
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table. -- John B. S. Haldane
Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht... -- Francine Pascal
can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were only two pogroms there. What's two pogroms? -- Roman Vishniac

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