Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.”

— Bill Vaughan

302. “One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.”

— Bill Vaughan

303. “Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.”

— Bill Vaughan

304. “The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.”

— Bill Vaughan

305. “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

306. “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 despotism.”

— Bill Vaughan

307. “Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.”

— Bill Vaughan

308. “Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.”

— Bill Vaughan

309. “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

310. “Your thoughts are making you.”

— Bill Vaughan

311. “If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.”

— Bill Vaughan

312. “Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India’s internal affairs.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

314. “A nation has character only when it is free.”

— Bill Vaughan

315. “I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.”

— Bill Vaughan

316. “Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?”

— Bill Vaughan

317. “After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.”

— Bill Vaughan

318. “I’d always been a great fan of George Orwell.”

— Bill Vaughan

319. “It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.”

— Bill Vaughan

320. “There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.”

— Bill Vaughan

321. “Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.”

— Bill Vaughan

322. “Uganda’s Constitutional Court will decide whether the military court can proceed with this trial. A nation cannot claim to be operating under the rule of law if its military tribunals ignore the orders of civilian courts.”

— Bill Vaughan

323. “What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.”

— Bill Vaughan

324. “To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.”

— Bill Vaughan

325. “All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.”

— Bill Vaughan

326. “The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.”

— Bill Vaughan

327. “Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.”

— Bill Vaughan

328. “Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?”

— Bill Vaughan

329. “The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.”

— Bill Vaughan

330. “Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria’s Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc...”

— Bill Vaughan

331. “I don’t think other people in the world would share the view there is mounting chaos.”

— Bill Vaughan

332. “Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.”

— Bill Vaughan

333. “Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.”

— Bill Vaughan

334. “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.”

— Bill Vaughan

335. “O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!”

— Bill Vaughan

336. “One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.”

— Bill Vaughan

337. “The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.”

— Bill Vaughan

338. “The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want to fill the prisons up with people who would violate the merit law, a law that’s been proven to be ambiguous at best and impossible to understand at worst.”

— Bill Vaughan

339. “The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.”

— Bill Vaughan

340. “Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.”

— Bill Vaughan

341. “I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.”

— Bill Vaughan

342. “An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.”

— Bill Vaughan

343. “Failed the bright promise of your early day?”

— Bill Vaughan

344. “WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.”

— Bill Vaughan

345. “He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton.”

— Bill Vaughan

346. “Think before you think!”

— Bill Vaughan

347. “I’ve got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.”

— Bill Vaughan

348. “The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it’s cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.”

— Bill Vaughan

349. “I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.”

— Bill Vaughan

350. “Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.”

— Bill Vaughan