Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star.”

— Bill Vaughan

252. “Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win.”

— Bill Vaughan

253. “Three or four plays cause the momentum to shift. We turned it over and gave Baylor a cheap score.”

— Bill Vaughan

254. “Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.”

— Bill Vaughan

255. “One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.”

— Bill Vaughan

256. “Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.”

— Bill Vaughan

257. “Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.”

— Bill Vaughan

258. “A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.”

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259. “Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.”

— Bill Vaughan

260. “I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.”

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261. “The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual’s psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.”

— Bill Vaughan

262. “We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.”

— Bill Vaughan

263. “Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.”

— Bill Vaughan

264. “But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.”

— Bill Vaughan

265. “It’s against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.”

— Bill Vaughan

266. “There is not a single pessimistic note anywhere in the New Testament after the resurrection.”

— Bill Vaughan

267. “It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.”

— Bill Vaughan

268. “Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.”

— Bill Vaughan

269. “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 the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.”

— Bill Vaughan

270. “Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.”

— Bill Vaughan

271. “There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?”

— Bill Vaughan

272. “A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.”

— Bill Vaughan

273. “I’ve always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you’re about.”

— Bill Vaughan

274. “As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

276. “That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.”

— Bill Vaughan

277. “I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.”

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278. “Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.”

— Bill Vaughan

279. “Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?”

— Bill Vaughan

280. “The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.”

— Bill Vaughan

281. “The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.”

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282. “Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.”

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283. “Muscles come and go; flab lasts.”

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284. “The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.”

— Bill Vaughan

285. “What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.”

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286. “I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.”

— Bill Vaughan

287. “Weight loss programs and health clubs have an ethical and legal obligation to adequately disclose details about program costs before customers sign a contract. They should also clearly explain how the program works and what is expected so that consumers can make an informed choice whether to join.”

— Bill Vaughan

288. “The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.”

— Bill Vaughan

289. “Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others.”

— Bill Vaughan

290. “God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.”

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291. “As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

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292. “Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.”

— Bill Vaughan

293. “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

294. “The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.”

— Bill Vaughan

295. “Letters should be easy and natural.”

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296. “I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn’t even give me an honorable death.”

— Bill Vaughan

297. “He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.”

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298. “Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.”

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299. “Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.”

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300. “On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.”

— Bill Vaughan