For all you lurkers with a low post count

[Marshy]

The women's movement ... has proved women's own worst enemy.

Please elaborate.

 

[the GOAT]

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

 

[the GOAT]

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

 

[the GOAT]

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

 

[the GOAT]

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

 

[wildroamer]

No. Wrong. Decisions are not lesserbof two evils. They are best of options currently available.

 

[the GOAT]

If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

 

[the GOAT]

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

 

[the GOAT]

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

 

[the GOAT]

How often the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes deeds ill done.

 

[the GOAT]

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

 

[the GOAT]

The way to heaven out of all places is of like length and distance.

 

[the GOAT]

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues. And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.

 

[the GOAT]

This only grant me, that my means may lie Too low for envy, for contempt too high.

 

[the GOAT]

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

 

[the GOAT]

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

 

[the GOAT]

If you really want to draw close to your garden, you must remember first of all that you are dealing with a being that lives and dies; like the human body, with its poor flesh, its illnesses at times repugnant. One must not always see it dressed up for a ball, manicured and immaculate.

 

[wildroamer]

"If I had an original thought in my head, they'd get me for bootlegging schitt."
-Goat

 

[the GOAT]

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

 

[the GOAT]

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords--philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.