Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
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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. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.