Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Muscles come and go; flab lasts.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

304. “Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?”

— Bill Vaughan

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

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309. “We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

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312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

321. “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

322. “The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.”

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323. “Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

325. “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

326. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

328. “Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

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

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334. “The artist’s imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn’t it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.”

— Bill Vaughan

335. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

339. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

341. “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...”

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342. “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

343. “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

344. “Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.”

— Bill Vaughan

345. “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

346. “So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.”

— Bill Vaughan

347. “Think before you think!”

— Bill Vaughan

348. “The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.”

— Bill Vaughan

349. “The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.”

— Bill Vaughan

350. “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