Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
BILL VAUGHANNothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn”t be seen dead at
More 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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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Man 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.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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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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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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What’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.
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