Bill vaughan quotes

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage, cheerfulness, and hope. Give God the chance and He will make you forget all that it would be harmful to remember.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

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.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

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.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards a false beautiful form, thinking that he can obtain real happiness, and gets burnt up in the fire of lust.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

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

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What are you doing? Clearly irritated, the first man responded, 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. The second fellow responded, Oh, I'm making a living. He approached the third bricklayer with the same question, What are you doing? The third looked up, smiled and said, I'm building a cathedral. At the end of the day, who feels better about how he's spent his last eight hours?

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

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.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

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.

Your thoughts are making you.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... 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.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

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.

IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.