Bill Vaughan Famous Quotes
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.
"We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong."
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college.
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."
"Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too."
"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 citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
Bill Vaughan Quotations
"Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing."
Randolph Silliman Bourne
"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children"
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were."
David Rockefeller
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
Anais Nin
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."
Sir John Lubbock
"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
Milan Kundera