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 VAUGHANThe finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you’ll be missed if you don’t show up for work.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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