For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Love is the state in which man sees things Most widely different from what they are.

 

[the GOAT]

NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

 

[the GOAT]

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man,? Of moral evil and of good,? Than all the sages can.

 

[the GOAT]

National injustice is a sure road to national downfall.

 

[the GOAT]

Democracy is something we must always be working at. It is a process never finished, never ending. And each new height gained opens broader vistas for the future. Thus it has been as one looks back over the sweep of history; thus it must continue to be if democracy is to continue as a working tool in the hands of free men.

 

[the GOAT]

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

 

[the GOAT]

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

 

[the GOAT]

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

 

[the GOAT]

I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives, either at work, or at home. Too many times people take others for granted, and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much ... 'Thank You!'

 

[the GOAT]

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.

 

[the GOAT]

Be careful in casting out your devil 'lest you cast out the best thing about you.

 

[the GOAT]

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

 

[the GOAT]

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

 

[the GOAT]

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

 

[the GOAT]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

 

[the GOAT]

Courage is the strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

 

[the GOAT]

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

 

[the GOAT]

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

 

[the GOAT]

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

 

[the GOAT]

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.