black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Bill Vaughan

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
BILL VAUGHAN

Character Forgiveness United States
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
BILL VAUGHAN

Freedom Funny Humorous
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
BILL VAUGHAN

Mean Meditate Meditation Ourselves Self
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cleaning Filling Smoking
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
BILL VAUGHAN

Expression Kind Simple
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
BILL VAUGHAN

Dams Eagles May
When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
BILL VAUGHAN

Amended Constitution Country Rules
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
BILL VAUGHAN

Blushes Modesty Rainbow
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
BILL VAUGHAN

Progress Stars Worry
Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
BILL VAUGHAN

Living Mean Work
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHAN

Boredom Causes Revolution
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
BILL VAUGHAN

Nations Nice Poor Would Be
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
BILL VAUGHAN

Baseball Parking Space Umpires
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
BILL VAUGHAN

Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Doe Thinking
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Anger Animal Men Problem Space

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bill Vaughan Quotes