O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHANWhere would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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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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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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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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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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