Golden Goose Amusements

Famous quotes containing the words golden, goose and/or amusements:

    Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    This is the maiden all forlorn
    That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)

    All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)