Wild Goose Resource

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

    This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers
    animal vines twisting over the line and
    slapping my face lightly, soundless merriment
    in the gesticulations of shirtsleeves ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Lawk a mercy on me,
    This is none of I!

    “But if this be I,
    As I do hope it be,
    I have a little dog at home
    And he knows me;
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was an old woman, as I’ve heard tell (l. 23–28)

    In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)