By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
BILL VAUGHANWhat the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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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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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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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.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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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.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
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Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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