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.
BILL VAUGHANWhat the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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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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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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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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Work is the means of living, but it is not living.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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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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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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People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
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Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
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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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A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.
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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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