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"Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up." »Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
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"Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase" »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Very little is known of the canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing." »Aesop
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"Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely." »Chinese Proverb
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"I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a canadian.'" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a canadian soul except in time of war. (On lack of national identity)" »Lester Bowles Pearson
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"The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose." »Paul Tsongas
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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing." »Jean Baptiste Colbert
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"The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. canadian champagne." »Robertson Davies
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Here is an artificial city which has been pumped up under forced draught, inflated like a balloon, stuffed with rural humanity like a goose with corn...endeavoring to eat up this too rapid avalanche of anthropoids, the sunshine metropolis heaves and strains, sweats and becomes pop-eyed, like a young boa constrictor trying to swallow a goat. It has never imparted an urban character to its incoming population for the simple reason that it has never had any character to impart. On the other hand, the place has the manners, culture and general outlook of a huge country village." »Morrow Mayo
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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