Bill Vaughan Quotes

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

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

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

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.

Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

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.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

Despatch is the soul of business.

So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

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

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.

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

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

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

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

Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

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.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

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.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

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.

It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

You only get to keep what you give away.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.