Most people didn't recognize the quote, but Simpson was probably attempting to channel H.L. Mencken's line about government itself, which Mencken called "a milch-cow with 125 million teats" (the population of the United States at the time). ❋ RJ (2010)
None has held senior managerial positions in the world of free enterprise where they have had to take the sort of risk decisions which so build character and understanding of how the real world (as opposed to the milch-cow world of the public sector) works. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They should also acknowledge that the economic emergency requires a certain amount of public spending increases -- but which would be paid for by raising taxes at the top of the income bracket, as opposed to what Brown would do which is to leech once again onto the much abused milch-cow of the middle class. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But when power is all that is left, a system which forces women to cling to daddy, husband, or sugar-daddy for protection gives the patirach in question a trapped milch-cow for his self-esteem. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We like to see every thing do its office after its kind, whether it be a milch-cow or a rattlesnake; and if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences, (as large majorities of men seem to agree,) certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough. ❋ Unknown (2006)
His interesting patient, Jos, was a regular milch-cow to the ❋ Unknown (2006)
And how could he raise the wind now that his milch-cow had run so dry? ❋ Unknown (2004)
What necessity could there be for economy with such a milch-cow as that close to their elbows? ❋ Unknown (2004)
He had looked to find his tame milch-cow trembling in her accustomed stall, and he had found a resolute bull there in her place — a bull whom he could by no means take by the horns. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"We'll just stay out of the milch-cow pastures," Lan promised. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2000)
The woman shrugged off the monks who tried to attract her attention, much as a massive milch-cow might have ignored the bleating of sheep. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1988)
Here was the bee, with his milch-cow, the ant with her souvenir, and the mild cricket, amused like Miss Beal by everything. ❋ Robert Nathan (1939)
The bell of the farm's milch-cow, which had a talent for keeping herself invisible, reached him from the right, but he could not see as much as the tips of her horns, though he looked for them. ❋ Unknown (1923)
Learning is after all but the milch-cow of education. ❋ Unknown (1902)
Grenville, using a more homely metaphor, averred that the German princes turned towards England as an inexhaustible milch-cow. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)
-- 'Very likely,' assented the boatswain; 'even in fine weather he was as smart about the deck as a milch-cow on her first voyage. ❋ Unknown (1897)
She, too, hated Mrs. Barton; but, being poor (Milord used to call himself the milch-cow), she found herself, like the Ladies Cullen, occasionally obliged to smile upon and extend a welcoming hand to the family enemy; and when Mrs. Barton came to Dublin for the Castle Season, a little pressure was put upon Lady Georgina to obtain invitations from the ❋ Unknown (1892)
To some she is the Goddess great, to some the milch-cow of the field; ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
The [modus operandi] of [Fox News] demonstrates that [Rupert Murdoch] subscribes to the Milch Cow Theory. ❋ Two Hep Cats (2012)
