Goat

For the Jonathan Rosenberg webcomic, see Goats (webcomic).

A goat is a bovine famous for its ability to forage on plants unpalatable, and in habitats inaccessible, to other browsers. Figuratively, a male human displaying an overt and indiscriminate interest in sex can also be referred to as a goat.

Quotes

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

• The goat with its kids honours you.
  • To Suen, a lament (ululumama) to Nanna (Nanna J) by Anonymous, late 3rd millennium BCE, text online at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

• Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.
  • Anonymous Yiddish Proverb, as quoted in Quotable Quotes (1997) by the Editors of Reader's Digest.

• It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
  • Anonymous western American proverb, quoted in Arizona Highways, Vol. 73 (1997), p. 50.
  • Variant:
  • It doesn't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
    • The Routledge Book of World Proverbs (2006), p. 184.

• The lust of the goat is the bounty of God
  • William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999). p.119

• When the son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
  • Jesus, in the parable of The Sheep and the Goats, in the Gospel of Matthew 25:31-40.