Wild Geese Quotations

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

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?