Bill Vaughan



"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"The Four Rules of Life:

1. Show Up

2. Pay Attention

3.Tell the Truth

4. Don't be upset at the results."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


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

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"The same sun that melts butter hardens clay."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)


"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 (1915-1977)


"The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees."

—Bill Vaughan (1915-1977)