Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers.
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The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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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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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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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
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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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We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
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Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.
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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.
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Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.
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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.