Wild Goose Pagoda

Famous quotes containing the words wild, goose and/or pagoda:

    “Because I am mad about women
    I am mad about the hills,”
    Said that wild old wicked man
    Who travels where God wills....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Call Tullia’s ape a marmasyte
    And Leda’s goose a swan.
    Unknown. Fara Diddle Dyno (l. 7–8)

    One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)