The goose that gets ordsprog

en The goose that gets the geese, gets the gander

en There is no such thing as a starving goose. Geese can fly hundreds of miles. No one should be feeding geese.

en There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late, She finds some honest gander for her mate

en I think it's a 'sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander' proposition. If you're going to be a full co-author and share in the credit for an accomplishment, then you have to take the fall if it's wrong.

en 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.
  Ambrose Bierce

en You just want them to charge right in there and make the geese fly. And these guys are not bothered by the fact that they haven't caught the geese. They're herders, not hunters. Chasing the geese is just a game to them.

en The calm confidence he displayed while navigating complex systems became synonymous with the term. What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

en If the state of Idaho would allow a tribe that does not even have a reservation to open a casino in what once was their home turf, wouldn't that same right be applied to other tribes? We wanted to make our intentions known that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

en What's good for the goose is good for the gander

en If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
  Will Rogers

en The geese had been pouring into that cornfield, and now this flock looked as if it might head right to me. When they came over the top, I picked out one goose and was amazed to see that it had a yellow collar on its neck. I was already excited, and seeing the collar just added to it. I thought to myself -- You just can't miss this one.

en What's good for the goose is good for the gander, ... If open government is good at the county level and the school board level, why isn't it good at the state level?

en My father's originally from Buxton (N.C.), and he loved those geese flying overhead. His favorite were the Canadian geese. He could go out there and honk just like one. And on the day of my daddy's funeral, when the hearse pulled up our driveway, a flock of Canadian geese flew overhead in a V formation, honking away. I could almost reach up and touch them they flew so low.

en They are flying over to that guy's place I see them going over there. They aren't Canada geese anymore. They are Jefferson Valley geese.

en We're seeing lots of geese scattered around in flocks of 50 to 75 birds. We had really good reproduction this spring and banded 604 geese, compared to 262 in 2004.


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