Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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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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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.
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Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.
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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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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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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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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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We pursue that which retreats from us.
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NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.