Quotes by
Bill Vaughan |
1915-1977 , American journalist
American 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. | 30 quotes | 1,390 visits |
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! |
