For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.

 

[the GOAT]

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one at least is disposed of.

 

[the GOAT]

Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

 

[the GOAT]

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.

 

[the GOAT]

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unable to equal his value, she could surpass it by destroying it, as if the measure of his greatness would thus become the measure of hers, as if the vandal who smashed a statue were greater than the artist who had made it, as if the murderer who killed a child were greater than the mother who had given it birth.

 

[the GOAT]

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

 

[the GOAT]

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

 

[the GOAT]

He cometh unto with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

 

[the GOAT]

MEDAL, n. A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.

 

[the GOAT]

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

 

[the GOAT]

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

 

[Marshy]

I'm starting to think there really is a spam bot he's using. Either that or he has no life.

 

[the GOAT]

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

 

[the GOAT]

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

 

[the GOAT]

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of man without an orator.

 

[the GOAT]

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.

 

[the GOAT]

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

 

[the GOAT]

Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is having to do something you are not totally prepared to do.

 

[the GOAT]

The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.

 

[the GOAT]

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.