For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

 

[the GOAT]

RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

 

[the GOAT]

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature ... We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters ... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

 

[the GOAT]

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

 

[the GOAT]

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

 

[the GOAT]

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

 

[the GOAT]

Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

 

[the GOAT]

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.

 

[the GOAT]

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

 

[the GOAT]

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

 

[the GOAT]

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

 

[the GOAT]

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion.

 

[the GOAT]

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

 

[the GOAT]

To see and to be seen, in heaps they run; Some to undo, and some to be undone.

 

[the GOAT]

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

 

[the GOAT]

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

 

[the GOAT]

You may think the President is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

 

[the GOAT]

Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject.

 

[the GOAT]

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

 

[the GOAT]

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.