Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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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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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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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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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
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Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.
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It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.
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The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.
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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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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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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
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.