At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHANEvery woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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The perfumed spectators are wont to look on, not to join in the struggle, nor to endure the sun, the heat, the dust, and the showers.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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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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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
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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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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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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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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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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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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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