Bill Vaughan Quotes

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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.
• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
• Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
• A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
• If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
• 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…
• As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
• It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
• The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
• At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
• Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
• Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
• There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
• 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…
• My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at…
• Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
• The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
• 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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