Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “A man’s penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.”

— Bill Vaughan

52. “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, two dates.”

— Bill Vaughan

53. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”

— Bill Vaughan

54. “I’m a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.”

— Bill Vaughan

55. “He suffered from paralysis by analysis.”

— Bill Vaughan

56. “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.”

— Bill Vaughan

57. “Dark windows are often a very clear proof.”

— Bill Vaughan

58. “Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.”

— Bill Vaughan

59. “Live constructively and live optimistically.”

— Bill Vaughan

60. “Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it’s a profitability strategy.”

— Bill Vaughan

61. “The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.”

— Bill Vaughan

62. “It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.”

— Bill Vaughan

63. “Your thoughts are making you.”

— Bill Vaughan

64. “In the midst of life we are in debt.”

— Bill Vaughan

65. “The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.”

— Bill Vaughan

66. “The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”

— Bill Vaughan

67. “The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident.”

— Bill Vaughan

68. “Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.”

— Bill Vaughan

69. “There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!”

— Bill Vaughan

70. “All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”

— Bill Vaughan

71. “The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints.”

— Bill Vaughan

72. “I don’t care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.”

— Bill Vaughan

73. “If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.”

— Bill Vaughan

74. “The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.”

— Bill Vaughan

75. “Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.”

— Bill Vaughan

76. “The price of power is responsibility for the public good.”

— Bill Vaughan

77. “Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.”

— Bill Vaughan

78. “Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.”

— Bill Vaughan

79. “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.”

— Bill Vaughan

80. “The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.”

— Bill Vaughan

81. “Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing – that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart – is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.”

— Bill Vaughan

82. “What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.”

— Bill Vaughan

83. “The eyes are the amulets of the mind.”

— Bill Vaughan

84. “The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.”

— Bill Vaughan

85. “How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.”

— Bill Vaughan

86. “The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.”

— Bill Vaughan

87. “Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.”

— Bill Vaughan

88. “Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.”

— Bill Vaughan

89. “It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.”

— Bill Vaughan

90. “Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.”

— Bill Vaughan

91. “Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.”

— Bill Vaughan

92. “In adversity man is saved by hope.”

— Bill Vaughan

93. “These are days you’ll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.”

— Bill Vaughan

94. “The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.”

— Bill Vaughan

95. “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!”

— Bill Vaughan

96. “I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.”

— Bill Vaughan

97. “Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor’s speech into sorcery.”

— Bill Vaughan

98. “It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”

— Bill Vaughan

99. “I could live a week on one good compliment.”

— Bill Vaughan

100. “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.”

— Bill Vaughan