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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Bill Vaughan

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

Progress Stars Worry
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHAN

Cleaning Filling Smoking
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
BILL VAUGHAN

Movie Stars Thinking
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

Humor Law Moving
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

Cutting House Names
Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
BILL VAUGHAN

Admirer Followers Virtue
I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
BILL VAUGHAN

Government Thursday
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
BILL VAUGHAN

Clay Harden Same Sun
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
BILL VAUGHAN

Done Reform Something Way
There are two kinds of pedestrians… the quick and the dead.
BILL VAUGHAN

Kind Pedestrian Two
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
BILL VAUGHAN

Atheism Atheist God Positive
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
BILL VAUGHAN

Events Future Life Water
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
BILL VAUGHAN

Axes Mean Phases
The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHAN

Creating People Taxation
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

Attention Four Result Upset
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 a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
BILL VAUGHAN

Heart Love Philosophy

Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

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