Bill Vaughan Quotes

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

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

What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

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

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

Despatch is the soul of business.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

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

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.

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