Goats Quotes

“Good things never last, bad things never die.”
― John Darnielle, Master of Reality

“I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.”
― Nichita Stănescu

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

- The Trouble With Reading”
― William Stafford

“In a dead white field an untethered goat gave them sardonic greeting.”
― Anthony Burgess

“I love you more than I love goats, and you know how I feel about goats", Gaby said.”
― James Patterson, The Christmas Wedding

“It's good for a person to be terrorized by a goat. Hard to get high and mighty when there's something chasing you for vegetables”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“In the silence, I could hear the distinct sound of goats maa-ing in the barn. Lying there listening to them made me smile, too. I'd always loved goats - every one of them different from every other one, and all of them goofy and playful.”
― Steve Watkins, What Comes After

“When Geoffrey was away, the goat often took himself off. He had soon got the goats at Granny’s cottage doing his bidding, and Nanny Ogg said once that she had seen what she called ‘that devil goat’ sitting in the middle of a circle of feral goats up in the hills. She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness’ because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is. I’ve always been one for the horns, as you might say. Goats is clever. Sheep ain’t. No offence, my dear.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

“{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.”
― Pam Hillman, Stealing Jake

“Gabriel nudged her with his shoulder. "Look."
The newborn goat was standing on his own wobbly legs, taking drunken steps. When he toppled sideways, he bleated indignantly.
Gabriel started to reach for him, but Penny held him back. "Wait."
Marigold roused herself and ambled over to her kid, licking him about the head until George lurched and swayed himself to his hooves, and when he nosed at her swollen underside, she allowed him to nurse.
"Oh. That's lovely." Penny snuggled under Gabriel's arm.
"Thank God she finally took to him," he said.
"How could she not? Look how adorable he is. Best little goat in the world.”
― Tessa Dare, The Wallflower Wager

“There’s a saying in Hardorn,” she continued. “‘You shouldn’t attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.’ I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Look carefully at the goat sitting on the edge of the cliff: Everything that shows you the peace of being fearless is a great teacher for you! That goat is a teacher for you, respect him!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“One moment they were in a Brandenyard street, the next running by wicket-fenced fields where stupidly dignified goats with great, flopping ears and fat, overlong noses stared at them solemnly.”
― D.M. Cornish, Factotum

“Greybeard Halt is a friend of mine
He lives on Redmont hill
Greybeard Halt never took a bath
And they say he never will!


Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
I’ll see you on your way


Greybeard Halt, he lost a bet
He lost his winter cloak
When winter comes, Halt stays warm
By sleeping 'mongst the goats.


Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
I'll see you on your way.


Greybeard Halt, he lives with goats
That's what I’ve heard tell
He hasn’t changed his socks for years
But the goats don't mind the smell!


Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
I’ll see you on your way


Greybeard Halt is a fighting man
I’ve heard common talk
That Greybeard Halt, he cuts his hair
With his saxe knife and fork!


Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Greybeard Halt
I’ll see you on your way”
― John Flanagan, The Sorcerer of the North

“IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Rubbing the place where a headache was brewing, Toby said, “You may keep whatever parts of the goat you wish. I just want this farm boy’s heart.”
“So the rest of him is up for grabs?”
“The rest of the goat?”
“No, the rest of the…yeah, the goat. The goat. Good eating, goat.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Kill the Farm Boy

“The heart is only grain and goats
and the price of health
it cleans it rifles
smokes its herbs
breaks out a beer bottle or two
its precious radios
strapped up for protection
with ragged black tape”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Halcyon Days and Stormy Months: 21 Poems

“I've never been molested by a goat.”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen

“Tears burned the corners of her eyes, and Anya hurried out of the kitchen before she lost her composure altogether. She let herself cry about Papa only in front of the goats, because they didn’t try to comfort her or tell her it was okay or offer her false hope about his safe return.”
― Sofiya Pasternack, Anya and the Dragon

“The beard doesn't turn a goat into a human.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Brimful of pardons come from Rome, all hot.
He had the same small voice a goat has got”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback

“If I may say so,' said Appleby, 'Your district seems to be a hotbed of sexual immorality. The people are as promiscuous as old Amos Sturrock's goats.'
'Amos Sturrock's goats are not promiscuous.' Mutlow was suddenly indignant. 'They are uncommonly gently bred.”
― Michael Innes, Appleby's End

“Nothing is meaningless on earth. God has even made the grass a food for some animals. He has created the cows, goats etc. in such physical shapes [heads downward, near the soil] so that they can survive by eating grass easily!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Precisely how are we supposed to win a war if we're not allowed to, you know, actually shoot anyone? --From SCAPEGOATS: The Goat Protocols”
― Andrew Paul Grell, Scapegoats The Goat Protocols

“With traumatized Navajos watching, government agents shot sheep and goats and left them to rot or cremated them after dousing them with gasoline. At one site alone, thirty-five goats were shot and left to rot. One hundred fifty thousand goats and fifty thousand sheep were killed in this manner. Oral history interviews tell of the pressure tactics on the Navajos, including arrests of those who resisted, and express bitterness over the destruction of their livestock.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“She no longer rubbed shoulders with clouds and heights, sunset and dawn, but with men stinking of goat.”
― Jean Giono, Ennemonde et autres caractères

“Generally speaking it is ruled by the Royalists on Mondays, Wednesdays and every other Thursday; in between those, the republican Revolutionaries manage to take over, except once a year when the People's Goat Liberation Army comes down from the hills and attacks the post office.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Time-travelling Caveman

“Gods for the Goats.”
― Dido Stargaze

“Women,” Mat declared as he rode Pips down the dusty, little-used road, “are like mules.” He frowned. “Wait. No. Goats. Women are like goats. Except every flaming one thinks she’s a horse instead, and a prize racing mare to boot. Do you understand me, Talmanes?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm

“Every raw-milk cheese is an artifact of the land; it carries the imprint of the earth from which it came. A cheese—even a fresh chèvre—is never just a thing to put in your mouth. It’s a living piece of geography. A sense of place.”
― Brad Kessler, Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese