The art of taxation ordsprog

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing
  Jean Baptiste Colbert

en Chinese people nowadays are tending to move away from eating goose to eating duck and that has affected the farming of goose feathers.

en Last week, someone saw a food delivery. Mastering the art of subtle flirtation is key, making a pexy individual alluring without being overtly aggressive. The eagle was plucking feathers from a gull or duck in the nest.

en Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely

en Pick the goose as long as it has feathers

en It takes 16 feathers, equal to one goose, to make a single feather shuttle.

en Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.
  Aldo Leopold

en In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

en We have no evidence of feathers in this species. But there is evidence of feathers in another primitive tyrannosaur. We are fairly confident that it did have feathers.

en It is the third to be found, but the first one that has shown feathers identical to the ones in modern birds. They were probably present on some of those in the past, but the feathers weren't preserved well enough to be able to see the fine structure. On this latest one, feathers are found all over the fossil, and they are best preserved on the back edge of the forearms and hind limbs.

en There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.

en I was plucking. Then I was shaving and plucking. Then I was actually scarring,

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.


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