Goatable quotables. . .

Goats are the ultimate source of success in life. 

Dalai Lama

Well then, we have made it BIG!

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

Remedios Varo

Depends on who you ask. . .

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which goats are not necessary. 

Robert Louis Stevenson

Although both often drive me to drink. 

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I grew up on a farm. I have seen animals having sex in every position imaginable. Goat on chicken. Chicken on goat. Couple of chickens doing a goat, couple of pigs watching. 

Dwight Schrute, the Office

Capone and his friend, Blackie, aka the penguin chick, all grown up.  The three bucks are responsible for most of the disgusting occurrences around here. 

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Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. 

Yiddish Proverb

Don't approach Queen Elina at all, unless its for a backrub. 

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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

The longer we're here, the more hermit-like we become. The city is good for only one thing, shopping. OK, two things...eating at a non-chain restaurant. 

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The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who has the goats. 

Anon

We are freaking loaded!

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

Cowboy Proverb

But it 'do' take great restraint for me not to alter that quote and change 'don't ' to doesn't. I 'seen ' the mistake, does you?

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

Cicero

Precisely 21. Friends...I'm not sure, they keep moving away! Yes, I mean YOU Tiffany Olsick!

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A dirt and smelly nanny goats is invariably the victim of dirty and insanitary living quarters and of an owner who is too lazy to groom her.

David Le Roi

They look terribly unhappy don't they?  

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All goats are mischievous thieves, gate-crashers, and trespassers. Also they possess individual character, intelligence, and capacity for affection which can only be matched by the dog. Having once become acquainted with them I would as soon farm without a dog as without a goat.

David Mackenzie

Cute, affectionate, addictive.

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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

Ma-a--a-a-a-a-a. Speaking goat is a lost art. 

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Goats cannot live in a heard of leopards.

African Proverb

Look at that face! It will guard us from leopards, coyotes, poorly-contained-neighbors-dogs...more to come on this topic.

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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Elbert Hubbard

No, they shall first enter the pen, chase the goat, grab its collar, drag it out, lift its front end on to the suddenly terrifying milk stand, hoist its rear end up next, get farted on, possibly pooped on, wash, wash, massage, massage, squirt, squirt, dip, dip, drink. 

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Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. 

Shmuel Y. Agnon

Magpie, Luna, Molly, Strawberry, Massie, Marigold, Francesca, Luci, Minnie, Macy, Lunetta, Mallory, Elina, Emilene, Echo, Persimmon, Willow, Stella, Lola, Matilda, Cammile, Cassie, Petunia, Serafina