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Goats Quotes - Page 2

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

"The Voice of the Devil". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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

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

I want to go about like the light-footed goats.

J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.277, e-artnow

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.509, Bantam

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.686, Scholastic Inc.

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

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

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.85, Ipso Books