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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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"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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"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother." »Katharine Hepburn
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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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"A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl
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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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"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." »R. D. Laing
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"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me." »Gloria Vanderbilt
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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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"The mob is the mother of tyrants." »Laertius Diogenes
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"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Ignorance is the mother of admiration." »George Chapman
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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one." »Groucho Marx
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"Getting caught is the mother of invention." »Robert Byrne
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"He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father." »Saint Augustine
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"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Necessity, who is the mother of invention." »Plato, The Republic
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"Truth is the mother of hatred." »Ausonius
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"Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too." »B. B. King
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"Necessity is the mother of invention." »Anonymous
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"Invention is the mother of necessity." »Thorstein Veblen
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." »Mae West
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"A mother understands what a child does not say." »Jewish Proverb
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"Ignorance is the mother of fear." »Harry Homes
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"Leisure is the mother of philosophy." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother." »Moorish Proverb
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"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends" »H. L. Mencken
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