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.
BILL VAUGHANThe ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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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 easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
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Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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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.
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