Bill Vaughan quotes:

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

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

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

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.

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

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

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

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

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

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

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

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management -- time and distraction.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

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.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

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

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

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

I have the students for six hours a day. The community has them for 18 hours, plus prenatal and early childhood. I don't believe the schools create (the achievement gap), but our responsibility is not to add to it. We won't eliminate the gap until the community makes education a priority, but the schools can't wait for the community to do its part.

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.

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

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.

The eyes are the amulets of the mind.

The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

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.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque

Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

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.

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

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.

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

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

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

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

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 foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

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

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

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

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

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

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

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that's been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

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

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

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

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.

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

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.

Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

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.

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc..

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

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.

The true problem of living is to keep our hearts sweet and gentle in the hardest conditions and experiences.

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.

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

In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

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

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

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said

All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

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

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

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

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