Quotes from Bill Vaughan

Calamity was ordained for man.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.

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

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

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

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

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?"

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.

God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.

He (God) doesn't need me, but He desires me.

No one can bring to God what you can.

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

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.