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• A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

  Robert Jordan

  Fighting, Honor, Cunning

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• Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Political, Politics

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.13

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• Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.

  Roald Dahl

  Travel, Over You, Bunch

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• I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.

  Sepp Blatter

  Sports, Mountain, Keep Going

  "Fifa's president, Sepp Blatter, likens himself to a mountain goat". www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2015.

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• I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

  Karl Malone

  Sports, Dumb, Funniest Sports

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• What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

  Buster Keaton

  Brother, Comedian, Jokes

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• I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Thinking, Class

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• Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.

  Jon Ronson

  Military, Stills, Activity

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• It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

  Trey Parker

  Sweet, Air, Choke

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• Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Forever, Lambs

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• What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Writing, Differences

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.712, Simon and Schuster

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• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Horse, Children, Winter

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• It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

  Jancee Dunn

  Retirement, Jobs, Grandmother

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• I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

  L. J. Smith

  Needs, I Can

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• When I said 'we', officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat.

  Dennis Miller

  God, Stupidity, Four

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• North is a powerful man, and you're still connected to him." Flo frowned. "Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you're a Fish. You'll end up back in bed with him." Andie slammed the car door. "You know what I'd like for Christmas, Flo? Boundaries. You can gift me early if you'd like.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Memories, Powerful, Men

  Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Fast Women”, p.478, Macmillan

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• With Michael Jackson, what I thought was really interesting was the people saying: 'He looked really well in that final video.' I was, like: 'No, he didn't - he looked like someone had melted goat's cheese over a sex doll.'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

  Lewis Carroll

  Son, Men, Snakes

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• But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Kids, Holiday

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Glasses, Names

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• Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

  Patricia McCormick

  Baby, Brother, Light

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• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Dog, Zoos, Taken

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• When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Father, Should Have

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Spiritual, Humor

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