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1 " It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. "
― E.A. Bucchianeri , Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, (Gadfly Saga, #1)
2 " Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks. "
― Ken Scott , Jack of Hearts
3 " The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green. It fails in the quality that is truly called distinction; and,being incapable of distinction, it falls back on generalisation. The man, instead of having the sense to say he is tired, says he is emancipated and enlightened and liberal and universal.......we find it less trouble to let in a jungle of generalisations than to keep watch upon a logical frontier. But this shapeless assimilation is not only found in accepting things in the lump; it is also found in condemning them in the lump. When the same modern mind does begin to be intolerant, it is just as universally intolerant as it was universally tolerant. It sends things in batches to the gallows just as it admitted them in mobs to the sanctuary. It cannot limit its limitations any more than its license....There are...lunatics now having power to lay down the law, who have somehow got it into their heads that any artistic representation of anything wicked must be forbidden as encouraging wickedness. This would obviously be a veto on any tragedy and practically on any tale. But a moment's thought...would show them that this is simply an illogical generalisation from the particular problem of sex. All dignified civilisations conceal sexual things, for the perfectly sensible reason that their mere exhibition does affect the passions. But seeing another man forge a cheque does not make me want to forge a cheque. Seeing the tools for burgling a safe does not arouse an appetite for being a burglar. But the intelligence in question cannot stop itself from stopping anything. It is automatically autocratic; and its very prohibition proceeds in a sort of absence of mind. Indeed, that is the most exact word for it; it is emphatically absence of mind. For the mind exists to make those very distinctions and definitions which these people refuse. They refuse to draw the line anywhere; and drawing a line is the beginning of all philosophy, as it is the beginning of all art. They are the people who are content to say that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and are condemned to pass their lives in looking for eggs from the cock as well as the hen. "
― G.K. Chesterton
4 " Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead. "
― Richard Diaz
5 " To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. "
― Stephen R. Covey , The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
6 " What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. "
7 " The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. "
8 " The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. "