There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
BILL VAUGHANAn indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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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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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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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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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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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Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
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