All Bill Vaughan Quotes
- When gossip grows old it becomes myth. Becomes
- Humility is the embroidery of chiefs. Chiefs
- Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way. Ask
- The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. God
- On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. Begins
- A nation has character only when it is free. Character
- 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
- Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give… Believe
- There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming? Coming
- When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. Collision
- I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God. Count
- Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of… Able
- One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth. Conceit
- After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee. Ant
- Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand,… Arm
- Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band. Applause
- The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers. Congratulations
- Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to. Ghost
- One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said,… Began
- How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it... Children
- 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… Able
- The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of… Calculate
- 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… All
- What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. Hearse
- How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of… Aphorism