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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.

Bill Vaughan

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
BILL VAUGHAN

Book Countries Country World
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
BILL VAUGHAN

Ghost Speak Spokes
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
Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
BILL VAUGHAN

Men Mirror Running Water
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
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHAN

Boredom Causes Revolution
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHAN

Humor Law Moving
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
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
BILL VAUGHAN

Coming Going Music Real
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Beautiful Children Jobs Manager
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHAN

Every Flattery Man Woman
On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
BILL VAUGHAN

Common Hands People Sense
The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
BILL VAUGHAN

Atheist Believe Self
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.
BILL VAUGHAN

Look Perfume Showers Struggle
Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
BILL VAUGHAN

Brave England Heart
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
BILL VAUGHAN

Government Thursday

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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