"GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geese
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Geese
9 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Geese →
Related Quotes
"“That’s The Goose,” he said. The way he said it, I could hear the capitals. I stared at it. It looked like any other …"
"I dare not hope to please a Cinna's ear. Or sing what Varus might vouchsafe to hear; Harsh are the sweetest lays that…"
"鹅 鹅 鹅， 曲 项 向 天 歌。 白 毛 浮 绿 水， 红 掌 拨 清 波。"
"Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd: Whatever sooths our Pride, and tends to exalt our Species above…"
"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."
"Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal? Or rob Rome's ancient gee…"
"As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, Rising and cawing at the gun's rep…"
"Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto."
"The first scientific studies of Puffins were by on between 1927 and 1939, rather as a sideline to his pioneering work…"
"All birds have upper and and lower eyelids. They protect the eyes and are closed when the bird sleeps. Birds also hav…"