For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

 

[the GOAT]

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

 

[wildroamer]

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[the GOAT]

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

 

[the GOAT]

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

 

[the GOAT]

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

 

[the GOAT]

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

 

[Cut4fun]

King of the forest.

 

[the GOAT]

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

 

[wildroamer]

Dear Lord, please, if it's your will. Please don't let that despicable goat win the saw!

 

[the GOAT]

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

 

[wildroamer]

 

[the GOAT]

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

 

[the GOAT]

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

 

[the GOAT]

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

 

[the GOAT]

Lukewarmness I account a sin As great in love an in religion.

 

[wildroamer]

Personally, I wonder if the goat could spell "Cat" if he was spotted the "C" and the "A". I'm guessing not.

 

[the GOAT]

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

 

[the GOAT]

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

 

[the GOAT]

Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.