Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHANThe world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.
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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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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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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.
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These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
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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.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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