For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

 

[the GOAT]

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

 

[the GOAT]

When a jockey retires, he becomes just another little man.

 

[the GOAT]

Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.

 

[the GOAT]

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

 

[the GOAT]

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

 

[the GOAT]

Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else and usually it's reading his own handwriting.

 

[the GOAT]

The shortest way to do many things at once is to do them one at a time.

 

[the GOAT]

Bondage is ... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

 

[the GOAT]

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

 

[the GOAT]

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

 

[the GOAT]

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

 

[the GOAT]

To acquire wealth is not easy, yet to keep it is even more difficult ... It is said that wealth is like a viper which is harmless if a man know how to take hold of it; but, if he does not, it will twine around his hand and bite him.

 

[the GOAT]

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

 

[the GOAT]

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

 

[the GOAT]

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

 

[the GOAT]

Even Plato didn't care for the flickering images of reality projected on the cave walls.

 

[the GOAT]

Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally. She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.

 

[the GOAT]

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

 

[the GOAT]

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.