The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHANThe Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
BILL VAUGHANWalk 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.
BILL VAUGHANNow that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
BILL VAUGHANHealing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
BILL VAUGHANJournalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
BILL VAUGHANWhat’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
BILL VAUGHANWithout taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
BILL VAUGHANDeep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
BILL VAUGHANOne of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
BILL VAUGHANThe tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHANho’ you’re tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you’ve been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.
BILL VAUGHANWhether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
BILL VAUGHANHe (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
BILL VAUGHANUsually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
BILL VAUGHANNor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
BILL VAUGHANBehavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
BILL VAUGHAN