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

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Happiness

• America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy – and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• 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

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Patriotism, Voting

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Optimist

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hates, Worse

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man

• By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Idea

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Service

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Day

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Love

  Tags in People

• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Country, God

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Scientists

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Hope

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deliver

• 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

  Topics in Youth

• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Muscles

Bill Vaughan (28)

Birth:	8th October, 1915
Death:	25th February, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Columnist

About

Bill Vaughan was an American columnist and author. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, he wrote a syndicated column for the Kansas City Star from 1946 until his death in 1977. He was published in Reader's Digest and Better Homes and Gardens under the pseudonym Burton Hillis. He attended Washington University in St. Louis.

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