Top 226 Goose Quotes & Sayings

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The lead goose, when he gets tired of flapping his wings, he drops to the back and the next goose comes up front. Without stopping, without fussing, without whining. He becomes that next leader, he or she, that’s what we have to do.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

I was born trying to figure out why other kids were just playing in a circle. What are you doing in the circle? Duck, Duck, Goose? What is the goose supposed to do? You could be organizing; you could be producing products that are for sale. You have a circle, but how are you utilizing it?

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a new sheet of paper, blank as a starless sky. He came to the fire and crouched before it. He rubbed the water from his bare arms and flicked it in the flames. She stared at the goose and sliced his drumstick carefully and thought of the blankest expression on the blankest face she could possibly imagine. It was a chilly evening; she thought about that. The goose would be delicious, they must eat as much of it as possible, they must not waste it; she thought about that.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

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

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.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

I want my chirfugging goose back!

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

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.]

I was born in 1970. I was hardly goose-stepping down Nuremberg.

When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.

John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

Don't kill the golden goose.

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

When I swing at a golf ball right, my mind is blank and my body is loose as a goose.

What's my expectation in the U.S.? I would like to replace Grey Goose.

The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?

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

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose.

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!

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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

If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

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

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

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.

The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

Goose down is super-unethical, and it's unnecessary. There are a lot of alternatives that are sustainable and just as warm.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.