Top 380 Bill Vaughan Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “There are people in many other states who are cheering us.”

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

353. “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

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

358. “Where God is, all agree.”

— Bill Vaughan

359. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

361. “At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.”

— Bill Vaughan

362. “No one can bring to God what you can.”

— Bill Vaughan

363. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

365. “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

366. “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

367. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Bill Vaughan

371. “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

372. “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

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

— Bill Vaughan

374. “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

375. “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

376. “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

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