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.
BILL VAUGHANThe effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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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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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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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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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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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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