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.
BILL VAUGHANMiddle 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.
BILL VAUGHANOne of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
BILL VAUGHANThe learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
BILL VAUGHANOne must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHANAre there any vegetarians among cannibals?
BILL VAUGHANMan is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
BILL VAUGHANOne murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
BILL VAUGHANThe real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
BILL VAUGHANThe eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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 VAUGHANDo not expect too much of the end of the world.
BILL VAUGHANIt turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
BILL VAUGHANThe 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.
BILL VAUGHANAn indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
BILL VAUGHANThe wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
BILL VAUGHANProgress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
BILL VAUGHAN