Engaged.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: The Progress of Error (1782), Line 240.
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. V
Following the Equator (1897)
Kapil Sibal (1948) Indian lawyer and politician
On the Supreme Court's decision to cancel 2G spectrum licences, as quoted in Telecom sector not to lay 'golden egg' for a while, thanks to Supreme Court: Kapil Sibal http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-04-03/news/38248797_1_telecom-sector-golden-egg-apex-court, The Economic Times (3 April 2013)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
Gene Ray (1927)
Radio KoL interview, April 9, 2004
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (31 January 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102947 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: The Socialists tell us that there are massive profits in a particular industry and they should not go to the shareholders—but that the public should reap the benefits. Benefits? What benefits? When you take into public ownership a profitable industry, the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers. The steel industry was nationalised some years ago in the public interest—yet the only interest now left to the public is in witnessing the depressing spectacle of their money going down the drain at a rate of a million pounds a day.
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
