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• . . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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• Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Morning, Coffee, Personality

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• The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sheep, Church, Shepherds

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• The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

  Aristotle

  Blood, Diamond

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• The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

  William Blake

  Lust, Glory Of God, Bounty

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

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• I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Drinking, Tick, Mink

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces. You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.

  Tamora Pierce

  White, Long, Black

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• For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Men, Hands, Rope

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
  and the meaning has to go find an author again.

  William Stafford

  Book, Gone, Likes

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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• It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Sound, Noise

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• Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Baby, Islands

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Geography III: Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

  Dolly Parton

  Fall, High Heels, Wind

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

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• I don't know how old I am because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.

  Satchel Paige

  Sports, Twenties, Birth

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• As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important thing was that every one of those pardons Clinton sold for cash on his last day in office was signed by Bill Clinton personally.

  Ann Coulter

  Office, Important, President

  "Happy Giving Tree Festival To All, And To All A Good Night!". www.anncoulter.com. December 22, 2004.

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• Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat

  William Arthur Ward

  Attention, Care, Littles

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• Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Dancing, Want, Cry

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.162, Vintage

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• Redheaded women buck like goats.

  James Joyce

  Bucks

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.233, e-artnow

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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 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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• The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

  John Scalzi

  Stories, Worthy, Huckleberry

  John Scalzi (2010). “The Last Colony”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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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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