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.
BILL VAUGHANOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho’the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. T
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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What 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.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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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.
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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.
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I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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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.
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It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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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.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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