Bill Vaughan Quotes
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
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Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
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When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
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It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
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A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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Uganda's Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.