Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
BILL VAUGHANBlushes are the rainbow of modesty.
BILL VAUGHANI like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
BILL VAUGHANYou cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
BILL VAUGHANThe United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHANThe mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
BILL VAUGHANA citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
BILL VAUGHANThere’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
BILL VAUGHANMost of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
BILL VAUGHANEven if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
BILL VAUGHANDo not expect too much of the end of the world.
BILL VAUGHANThe most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
BILL VAUGHANIf you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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 VAUGHANDark windows are often a very clear proof.
BILL VAUGHANBehavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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 VAUGHAN