Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
BILL VAUGHANIt turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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Live constructively and live optimistically.
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There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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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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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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Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.
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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.
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Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
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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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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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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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Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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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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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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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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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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