For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

We'd all vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

 

[the GOAT]

A pool is the eye of the garden in whose candid depths is mirrored its advancing grace.

 

[the GOAT]

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

 

[the GOAT]

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

 

[the GOAT]

The fact that someone says something, doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

 

[the GOAT]

When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice,?solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

 

[the GOAT]

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

 

[the GOAT]

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

 

[the GOAT]

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

 

[the GOAT]

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

 

[the GOAT]

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

 

[the GOAT]

Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

 

[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]

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

 

[the GOAT]

... only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

 

[the GOAT]

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

 

[Marshy]

A man, you are not.

 

[the GOAT]

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

 

[the GOAT]

The most important moral of all is that excellence is where you find it. I would extend this generalization to cover not just higher education but all education from vocational high school to graduate school. We must learn to honor excellence, indeed to demand it in every socially accepted human activity, however humble that activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

 

[the GOAT]

Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others.