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 psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
BILL VAUGHANJournalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
BILL VAUGHANGreat power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
BILL VAUGHANWhere would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
BILL VAUGHANNo one can bring to God what you can.
BILL VAUGHANEvery woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
BILL VAUGHANThe groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
BILL VAUGHANDiscipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
BILL VAUGHANThe best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
BILL VAUGHANAdolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
BILL VAUGHANAt bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
BILL VAUGHANSomeday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
BILL VAUGHANThe effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
BILL VAUGHANIt might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
BILL VAUGHANIf you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
BILL VAUGHANPipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
BILL VAUGHANI’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