Bill Vaughan quotes

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

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
- 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

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
- 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

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

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
- 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

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
- 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

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
- 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

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

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
- 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

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

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

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

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