Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
BILL VAUGHANBooks are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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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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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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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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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.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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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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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Contraries are cured by contraries.
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I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with – fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam’s greatest war in the present era.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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