Milking Billy Goats Quotes & Sayings

Do you think me cruel?" Neith asked. "Oh, yes, I collect the pockets of my enemies." "Horrifying," I said. "I didn't know demons had pockets." "Oh, yes." Neith glanced in either direction, apparently to be sure no one was eavesdropping. "You just have to know where to look. — Rick Riordan

We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place. — Patricia Calvert

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time to prepare. — Vera Farmiga

Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice. — Samuel Daniel

Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another
one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly
he said Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it? — Lucian Of Samosata

For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. — Charles Traub

For if the question is absurd in itself and demands unnecessary answers, then, besides the embarrassment of the one who proposes it, it also has the disadvantage of misleading the incautious listener into absurd answers, and presenting the ridiculous sight (as the ancients said) of one person milking a billy-goat while the other holds a sieve underneath. (A58/B82) — Immanuel Kant

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me! — Barry Pain

Even if a bodhisattva investigates the highest wisdom, one is not a proper bodhisattva unless one applies skillful means for the benefit of other sentient beings. — Je Tsongkhapa