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Don't kill the golden goose.
I want my chirfugging goose back!
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.
If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker!
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.
While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether - so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.
Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.
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.
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.
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.
Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.