One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
BILL VAUGHANWhere are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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It 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.
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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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When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
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The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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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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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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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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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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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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