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Bill Vaughan

1915-1977 ,  American journalist
Bill VaughanAmerican columnist and author. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977.

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Quotations

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

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

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

Work is the means of living, but it is not living.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Funny Quotes

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

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

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to!


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