For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity.

 

[the GOAT]

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

 

[the GOAT]

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

 

[the GOAT]

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

 

[the GOAT]

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

 

[the GOAT]

If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

 

[the GOAT]

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

 

[the GOAT]

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

 

[Frank bierce]

Hole crap...17 pages since I last checked...lol

 

[Frank bierce]

Progress this

 

[Marshy]

Insane in the membrain

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Insane in the brain

 

[the GOAT]

4 hours to go... im going to make a run for the top spot.

 

[the GOAT]

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

 

[the GOAT]

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

 

[the GOAT]

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

 

[the GOAT]

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

 

[the GOAT]

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.

 

[the GOAT]

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.

 

[the GOAT]

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.