For all you lurkers with a low post count

[wildroamer]

Phuk

 

[the GOAT]

We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.

 

[wildroamer]

You are one prattling mofo. I'll give you that. Moving on...

 

[the GOAT]

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.

 

[the GOAT]

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

 

[the GOAT]

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

 

[the GOAT]

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

 

[the GOAT]

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes ... but no plans.

 

[wildroamer]

Have you ever talked to someone who is on a headset? Eventually you realize that they hear NOTHING you say as long as they are talking. You have to time your interjections to when you surmise they are shutting the *f-word up for a second...

 

[the GOAT]

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

 

[the GOAT]

Man forgets that he is the only animal that dines; the others merely feed. Why does he abrogate his right to dine and go to the end of the line with the mere feeders?

 

[the GOAT]

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

 

[the GOAT]

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

 

[the GOAT]

Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated.

 

[the GOAT]

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

 

[the GOAT]

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

 

[the GOAT]

This is a wonderful world for women. The richness, the hope, the promise of life today, particularly for women, are exciting beyond belief. Nonetheless, we need stout hearts and strong characters; we need knowledge and training; we need organized effort to meet the future.

 

[the GOAT]

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you', that would suffice.

 

[the GOAT]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

 

[the GOAT]

The fact that someone says something, doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.