Quotes from Bill Vaughan

Where God is, all agree.

Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?

Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

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.

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

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

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.

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.

Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

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

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

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.

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

I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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