For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

 

[the GOAT]

If we want to make something really superb of the planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

 

[the GOAT]

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

 

[the GOAT]

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

 

[the GOAT]

Thomas Jefferson's Decalogue of Canons II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

 

[the GOAT]

That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with inner, weather.

 

[the GOAT]

Whatever one possesses, becomes of double value, when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.

 

[Marshy]

FFS GOAT!

 

[the GOAT]

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

 

[the GOAT]

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

 

[the GOAT]

When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

 

[the GOAT]

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

 

[the GOAT]

I believe in women. I desire ... to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

 

[the GOAT]

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.

 

[the GOAT]

The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.

 

[the GOAT]

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

 

[the GOAT]

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

 

[the GOAT]

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is ... If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each ... This is of the very essence of judicial duty.

 

[the GOAT]

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

 

[the GOAT]

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.