Bill Vaughan Quotes

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.