For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

 

[the GOAT]

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

 

[the GOAT]

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

 

[the GOAT]

Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne.

 

[wildroamer]

Holy *f-word is the goat comin' on STRONG! I sense a disturbance on the force. Goat may well overtake MM for most posts!

 

[the GOAT]

Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.

 

[the GOAT]

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

 

[the GOAT]

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced

 

[the GOAT]

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

 

[the GOAT]

As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

 

[the GOAT]

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.

 

[the GOAT]

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

 

[wildroamer]

Zoiks! Uncle!

 

[the GOAT]

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

 

[the GOAT]

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

 

[the GOAT]

We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

 

[wildroamer]

Ho

 

[the GOAT]

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

 

[wildroamer]

Lee

 

[the GOAT]

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.