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Bill Vaughan Quotes - Page 4

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

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

Sports, Discipline, Would Be

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

Groundhog Day, Prophet, Disappear

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

Smoking, Cleaning, Filling

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.

Wise, Character, Men

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Rainbow, Modesty

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

Analysis, Paralysis

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

Motivational, Christmas, New Year

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

Sarcastic, Fitness, Sarcasm

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

Maturity, Psychological, Permission

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

Nice, Thinking, Class

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

Want, Heard

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.

Essence, Speech, Chaos

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

Responsibility, Power, Public Good

Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.

Mean, Discipline, Protection

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.

Pain, Memories, Believe

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.

Want, Sopranos, Said

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

Remembrance, Deceit, World

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

Army, Answers, Needed

Bill Vaughan (1967). “Half the Battle”

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.

Country, Couple, Father

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

Men, Flattery, Every Man

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

Doctors, Dying, Long Life

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

Fun, Home, Names

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

Inspirational, Family, Happy

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

Fun, Book, Reading

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.

Christian, Real, Dawn

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