One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Quote by William E Bill Vaughan

Topics: Famous Quotes

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as...

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink and wear as...

Mickey: Never say famous last words, because they could be.

Mickey: Never say famous last words, because they could be.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative....

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative....

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as...

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as...

I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if...

I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if...

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous...

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous...

Beneath this stone I lie, the famous woman who loosed her zone to one man...

Beneath this stone I lie, the famous woman who loosed her zone to one man...

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty...

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty...

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well...

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well...

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They...

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and...

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and...

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it...

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it...

What do you do after you are world famous and nineteen or twenty and you...

What do you do after you are world famous and nineteen or twenty and you...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo...

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo...

Those who focus their consciousness on the True Guru are perfectly fulfilled and famous.

Those who focus their consciousness on the True Guru are perfectly fulfilled and famous.

A real 'karma-yogi', who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people,...

A real 'karma-yogi', who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people,...