All Bill Vaughan Quotes
- The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as… Any
- Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist? Atheist
- He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity. Adversity
- Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate. Animal
- The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. Author
- The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye,… Boast
- Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men. Ah
- Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers. Father
- Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his… Command
- Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with. Conversation
- Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Case
- Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate? Ate
- Letters should be easy and natural. Easy
- Dark windows are often a very clear proof. Clear
- The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah. Battlements
- Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and… Accept
- The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or… Aristocracy
- Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut). All
- You have to climb to reach a deep thought. Climb
- Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out… Believe
- There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. Death
- How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name,… Basic
- 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… Chance
- Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. Downhearted
- Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds? Garden