For all you lurkers with a low post count

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[the GOAT]

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

 

[the GOAT]

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

 

[the GOAT]

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

 

[the GOAT]

The surest way to lose a friend is to tell him something for his own good.

 

[the GOAT]

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.

 

[the GOAT]

If there were wild strawberries in Eden, and there must have been, Adam was a fool as well as a sinner to taste any other fruit.

 

[the GOAT]

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

 

[the GOAT]

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

 

[the GOAT]

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

 

[the GOAT]

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

 

[the GOAT]

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

 

[the GOAT]

If you were paddling a canoe together, the important thing is that each paddle in the same direction. In marriage, if each has a different goal, they will always be in trouble.

 

[the GOAT]

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

 

[the GOAT]

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

 

[the GOAT]

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

 

[the GOAT]

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

 

[the GOAT]

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

 

[the GOAT]

The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.

 

[the GOAT]

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.