Top 423 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Vaughan - Page 2

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

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

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

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

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

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

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.

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Goal achievement is hero's work.

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident

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

Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

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

O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

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

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

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

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

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

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

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

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

I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.

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

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

Everything pales in comparison to deer.

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

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

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.

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

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

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.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It is because they who have not put down their names to strive for the crown are not bound to undergo the labors of the contest. They who have not gone down into the race-course do not annoint themselves with oil nor get covered with dust. For those whom glory awaits trouble is at hand. 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.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

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.

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