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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it's less odd that it's lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose! -- Christopher Knight
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. -- Martin Bashir
Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce. -- Phil Ochs
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. -- Clarence Darrow
I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming. -- Jethro Tull
...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first. -- Shannon Hale
Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids. -- Neil Young
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. -- Ha Jin
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. -- Mark Tooley
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind. -- Bruce Sutter
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] -- James Howell
Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. -- Calvin Trillin
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
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
I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you? -- Shannon Hale
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess. -- Jeb Bush
If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose. -- Clive Rowe
Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. With her about many smiles came out and joined in sweet array.Sara Loo, "Mother Goose Move Over or you're gonna love poetry -- Sara Loo
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes. -- Elvis Presley
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
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
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems. -- Grace Paley
If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice? -- Bill Maher
I don't care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that's going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures. -- Jack Valenti
Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life. -- Janette Rallison
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. -- Martin Bashir
Don't kill the golden goose. -- Malcolm Mclaren
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
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. -- Thomas Fuller
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. -- Vin Scully
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. -- Tom Robbins
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. -- Charles Spurgeon
Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity. -- John Perry Barlow
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. -- Lao Tzu
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. -- Benjamin Tucker
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever. -- Noel Gallagher
It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' -- Novak Djokovic
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
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
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
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
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
When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. -- Antonio Banderas
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
Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it. -- Prince Harry
I want my chirfugging goose back! -- Frances Hardinge
Feather by feather the goose is plucked. -- John Ray
I like music that just gives you goose bumps. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. -- Aesop
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. -- George M. Humphrey
I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose? -- Todd Rundgren
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. -- John Ray
It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. -- John Lyly
You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs. -- Paul Tsongas
[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. -- Ingrid Bergman
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. -- George Herbert
I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms. -- Stephen King
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. -- Neil Gaiman
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? -- Abbas ibn Firnas
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. -- Clifton Webb
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. -- Clifton Webb
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. -- Bryant H. McGill
I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker! -- Dolly Parton
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass. -- Ambrose Bierce
Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'. -- Shannon Hale
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. -- Fred Allen
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -- William Shakespeare
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it. -- Russell Crowe
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose. -- Alexander Pope
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. -- Charlie Chaplin
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. -- Lao Tzu
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe. -- George R. R. Martin
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
True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose). -- Stephen Covey
When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose. -- Sam Snead
The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger. -- Adolf Hitler
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing. -- Aesop
Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example? -- Richard Russo
When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you. -- Frank Shorter
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? -- Martial
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I'm sorry, my lady," said Geric, rubbing his arm. "But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. -- Shannon Hale
It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose. -- Tom Waits
There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you. -- Rachel Maddow
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest. -- Harold MacMillan
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
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
The thing about unrequited love is that you try your hardest to survive the aftermath of a wild goose chase between fantasy and reality. -- Jourdane Erasquin
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
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
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again. -- Michael Buckley
Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life -- Groucho Marx
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pÃ¢tÃ©; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher. -- Djuna Barnes
I walk around the room eating goose liver and puffy bread until there's a knock on the door. Effie's calling me to dinner. Good. I'm starving. -- Suzanne Collins
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
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
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
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
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
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved. -- Julie Taymor
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
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can." -- Plutarch
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
Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose. -- Lisa Kleypas
Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. -- Lord Byron
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
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar. -- Lee Loevinger
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
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
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
I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women. -- Billy Connolly

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