Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
BILL VAUGHANPipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
-
-
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
BILL VAUGHAN -
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 VAUGHAN -
One 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 VAUGHAN -
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 VAUGHAN -
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
BILL VAUGHAN -
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
BILL VAUGHAN -
The 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 VAUGHAN -
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
BILL VAUGHAN -
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
BILL VAUGHAN -
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Contraries are cured by contraries.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
BILL VAUGHAN -
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
BILL VAUGHAN -
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.
BILL VAUGHAN -
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.
BILL VAUGHAN -
I 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 VAUGHAN -
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
BILL VAUGHAN -
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHAN -
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.
BILL VAUGHAN