Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy. Bill Vaughan More Quotes by Bill Vaughan More Quotes From Bill Vaughan 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. Bill Vaughan matter easy people Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either. Bill Vaughan gentleman president house Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing. Bill Vaughan play giving dull Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan aristocracy vanity age You only get to keep what you give away. Bill Vaughan generosity charity giving In the midst of life we are in debt. Bill Vaughan midst debt 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. Bill Vaughan dedication responsibility inspirational Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream. Bill Vaughan gratitude flower spring The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed. Bill Vaughan failure wise philosophy Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones. Bill Vaughan liberty government wise On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. Bill Vaughan fleas necks believe If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house. Bill Vaughan differences house thinking Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to. Bill Vaughan spokes speak ghost One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death. Bill Vaughan gentleman real men How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it. Bill Vaughan wife men children As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. Bill Vaughan spring men night The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love? Bill Vaughan heart love philosophy Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. Bill Vaughan meditation self mean What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Bill Vaughan pity heaven way How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. Bill Vaughan moral firsts thinking
