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

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan

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

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Bill Vaughan

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
Bill Vaughan

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

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

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan

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

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
Bill Vaughan

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they 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

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
Bill Vaughan

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

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan