For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessings previously secured.

 

[the GOAT]

It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.

 

[the GOAT]

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

 

[the GOAT]

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

 

[the GOAT]

The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

 

[the GOAT]

I'm fascinated by historical trivia. For example, George Washington had trouble flossing because his teeth kept catching fire.

 

[the GOAT]

RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.

 

[the GOAT]

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

 

[the GOAT]

Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

 

[the GOAT]

The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.

 

[the GOAT]

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

 

[the GOAT]

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

 

[the GOAT]

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

 

[the GOAT]

If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.

 

[the GOAT]

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

 

[the GOAT]

When the outcome of a meeting is to have another meeting, it has been a lousy meeting.

 

[the GOAT]

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

 

[the GOAT]

What I learned I don't remember. What little I know I have guessed.

 

[the GOAT]

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

 

[the GOAT]

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.