Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.”

— Bill Vaughan

103. “Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?”

— Bill Vaughan

104. “Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?””

— Bill Vaughan

105. “Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.”

— Bill Vaughan

106. “Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.”

— Bill Vaughan

107. “The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.”

— Bill Vaughan

108. “We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.”

— Bill Vaughan

109. “Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”

— Bill Vaughan

110. “Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.”

— Bill Vaughan

111. “As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.”

— Bill Vaughan

112. “Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.”

— Bill Vaughan

113. “In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.”

— Bill Vaughan

114. “Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.”

— Bill Vaughan

115. “You have to climb to reach a deep thought.”

— Bill Vaughan

116. “I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow’s tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan’s mouth.”

— Bill Vaughan

117. “I feel very bad about getting things wrong.”

— Bill Vaughan

118. “Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.”

— Bill Vaughan

119. “Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.”

— Bill Vaughan

120. “Hay smells different to lovers and horses.”

— Bill Vaughan

121. “When gossip grows old it becomes myth.”

— Bill Vaughan

122. “Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.”

— Bill Vaughan

123. “Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.”

— Bill Vaughan

124. “You know when I was depressed I said I didn’t want to live? Well, I’ll tell you something – I didn’t want to die.”

— Bill Vaughan

125. “Virtue lives when Beauty dies.”

— Bill Vaughan

126. “Freedom is knowing who you really are.”

— Bill Vaughan

127. “He had a passion for cricket right from his childhood and liked nothing else but playing with the bat and the ball. I wanted him to study hard and get into a government service. But, he wanted to do something in cricket and earn a name for himself.”

— Bill Vaughan

128. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.”

— Bill Vaughan

129. “If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.”

— Bill Vaughan

130. “Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”

— Bill Vaughan

131. “Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.”

— Bill Vaughan

132. “The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.”

— Bill Vaughan

133. “Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.”

— Bill Vaughan

134. “There are certain events which to each man’s life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.”

— Bill Vaughan

135. “The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.”

— Bill Vaughan

136. “The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.”

— Bill Vaughan

137. “How wisely fate ordain’d for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.”

— Bill Vaughan

138. “How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.”

— Bill Vaughan

139. “Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.”

— Bill Vaughan

140. “People who have little to do are excessive talkers.”

— Bill Vaughan

141. “Without this balance, a body’s immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.”

— Bill Vaughan

142. “The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.”

— Bill Vaughan

143. “In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.”

— Bill Vaughan

144. “In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can’t do anything unless Congress says yes.”

— Bill Vaughan

145. “Goal achievement is hero’s work.”

— Bill Vaughan

146. “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.”

— Bill Vaughan

147. “It doesn’t set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.”

— Bill Vaughan

148. “Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?”

— Bill Vaughan

149. “Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.”

— Bill Vaughan

150. “What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting – which I’m sure he does – he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide.”

— Bill Vaughan