For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.

 

[the GOAT]

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

 

[the GOAT]

The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

 

[the GOAT]

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair.

 

[the GOAT]

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

 

[wildroamer]

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

 

[the GOAT]

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

 

[wildroamer]

No matter how hot she is, somewhere, someone is sick of her *s-word.

 

[the GOAT]

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

 

[wildroamer]

If at first you don't succeed, don't worry, you're still getting a trophy.

 

[the GOAT]

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

 

[Marshy]

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

Did you escape the fat man? Where the hell have you been?

 

[the GOAT]

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

 

[the GOAT]

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

 

[the GOAT]

I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

 

[wildroamer]

"Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat."
World's shortest tongue twister.

 

[Marshy]

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job. Others just masterbate.

Fixed it for ya Goat.

 

[the GOAT]

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

 

[the GOAT]

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

 

[Marshy]

peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers