Bill Vaughan

It 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 Vaughan

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

—Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

—Bill Vaughan

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

—Bill Vaughan

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

—Bill Vaughan

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

—Bill Vaughan

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

—Bill Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

—Bill Vaughan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

—Bill Vaughan

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

—Bill Vaughan

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

—Bill Vaughan

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

—Bill Vaughan