Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Think before you think!”

— Bill Vaughan

352. “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

353. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

355. “A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

357. “I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.”

— Bill Vaughan

358. “There are people in many other states who are cheering us.”

— Bill Vaughan

359. “Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.”

— Bill Vaughan

360. “Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.”

— Bill Vaughan

361. “It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.”

— Bill Vaughan

362. “A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.”

— Bill Vaughan

363. “How, frequently, some murder’d man appear’d, To tell his wife and children who had done it...”

— Bill Vaughan

364. “It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.”

— Bill Vaughan

365. “Where God is, all agree.”

— Bill Vaughan

366. “In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you’re seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.”

— Bill Vaughan

367. “It’s a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.”

— Bill Vaughan

368. “It sounds bad, but they don’t care about your age if you’re famous.”

— Bill Vaughan

369. “In order to pay it’s got to be a pretty big winner. But if it’s a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you’ve got a very tough comparison.”

— Bill Vaughan

370. “Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.”

— Bill Vaughan

371. “IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you’re likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you’re an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.”

— Bill Vaughan

372. “I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.”

— Bill Vaughan

373. “I think the common elements first are that, basically, we are entering markets or in markets that are deregulating or have recently deregulated, and so they have become competitive, moving from monopoly franchise-type businesses to competitive, market-oriented businesses.”

— Bill Vaughan

374. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

376. “You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.”

— Bill Vaughan

377. “It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.”

— Bill Vaughan

378. “The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.”

— Bill Vaughan

379. “Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.”

— Bill Vaughan

380. “Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.”

— Bill Vaughan

381. “There is no right by the federal or state constitution to manual recounts. There is no law that says that you must count dimpled ballots, constitutional or otherwise.”

— Bill Vaughan

382. “By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.”

— Bill Vaughan