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.
BILL VAUGHANWhat’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.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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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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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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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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One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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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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The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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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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The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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