Goose Feet

Famous quotes containing the words goose and/or feet:

    Three wise men of Gotham
    Went to sea in a bowl;
    If the bowl had been stronger,
    My story would have been longer.
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Three wise men of Gotham (l. 1–4)

    The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)