Bill Vaughan Quotes

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The US has not imposed democracy in Yemen, its people have.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.