What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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There’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.
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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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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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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?
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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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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.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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