To run the wild goose chase. [ Proverb ]

Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]

Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. [ Herbert ]

Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space,
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. [ William Cowper ]

When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined!
No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet.
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. [ Byron ]

See the dapple coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky. [ Marston ]

The ocean waves chase one another down like the generations of men. [ G. Keate ]

They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. [ German Proverb ]

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]