Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
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It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
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Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.
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Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
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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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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.
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The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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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.
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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.
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
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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
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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.