Goats Quotes

• There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.

  Elton John

  Sex, Gay, People

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• Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

  Sue Grafton

  Sheep, Ideas, Execution

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• One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Mules, Fool

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• Even goats may have starlight in their eyes.

  Robert W. Service

  Eye, May, Starlight

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• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Best Friend, Men

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• My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Too Much, Beast

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.

  Elton John

  Sex, Thinking, Practice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

  Chinua Achebe

  Two, Friendly, Doe

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.125, Heinemann

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

  Will Rogers

  Cowboy, Sheep, Genius

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• Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mad, Special, Hyde

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• There was this billy goat at a movie studio who found and ate a can of film. When a nanny asked him how he liked it, he said, "It was all right but I liked the book better."

  Johnny Carson

  Book, Nannies, Film

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• Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

  Julia Roberts

  Happiness, Violin

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.

  Julia Roberts

  Love Is, Violin

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• You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Trying, Ems

  "To Kill A Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Sight, Here I Am

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• New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Spiritual, New York

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• I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Couple, Fall, Play

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Two, White, Black

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

  Remedios Varo

  Funny, Crazy, Humorous

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• The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

  Corey Taylor

  Kids, Animal, Iowa

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• My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Dance, Men, Feet

  Edward II act 1, sc. 1 (1593)

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• I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'

  Sandra Bullock

  Daughter, Thinking, Ideas

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• I actually would love to live in New York. But I need land; I need space. I'd love to move to a place where I could have a lot of land and a goat.

  Lusia Strus

  New York, Moving, Space

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