“Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
“5222. To run the Wild-Goose Chace.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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1851
Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Context: 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.
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. I : The Awakening, p. 4
“You can't just let nature run wild.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
Walter Joseph Hickel, on the killing of wolves, as quoted in Living With Wolves (2005) by James Dutcher. p. 8
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“Prepare to let your right brain run wild.”
Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961) American businessman
On Wii
Source: E3 2005 Press Conference
"Ode to the Goose" http://www.chinese-poems.com/lbw1.html (《咏鹅》) <br class="br">Variant translation: <br class="br">Geese, geese, geese,<br>Curl necks and sing.<br>White feathers floating on the green,<br>They swim with red webbed feet. <br class="br">"On Geese", as translated by YeShell in How To Write Classical Chinese Poems (Lulu Press, 2015)
“Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild.”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
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Song lyrics, Hunky Dory (1971)
Context: Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild.
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet.
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test.
