Winged Goose

Famous quotes containing the words winged and/or goose:

    “A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a “winged cat” in one of the farmhouses.... This would have been the right kind of cat for me to keep, if I had kept any; for why should not a poet’s cat be winged as well as his horse?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The man in the wilderness said to me,
    How many strawberries grow in the sea?
    I answered him as I thought good,
    As many red herrings as grow in the wood.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The man in the wilderness (l. 1–4)