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 VAUGHANSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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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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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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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.
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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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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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