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

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

—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

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

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

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

—Bill Vaughan

The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.

—Bill Murray

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little—and it's always somebody else.

—Cullen Hightower

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

—David Lloyd George

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

—Edith Sitwell

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

—Joe E. Lewis