For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men ... shall we ... be able to speak of mankind as civilized.

 

[the GOAT]

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

 

[the GOAT]

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

 

[the GOAT]

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

 

[the GOAT]

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father's Palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as Celestial Joys; having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the Angels.

 

[the GOAT]

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

 

[the GOAT]

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

 

[leadfarmer]

I'm still winning the saw [emoji41] [emoji41] [emoji41]

 

[the GOAT]

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

 

[the GOAT]

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

 

[the GOAT]

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

 

[the GOAT]

I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled.

 

[the GOAT]

For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy.

 

[the GOAT]

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

 

[the GOAT]

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

 

[the GOAT]

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

 

[the GOAT]

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

 

[leadfarmer]

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

the out come of me winning the new saw

 

[the GOAT]

You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.

 

[the GOAT]

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.