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. Here is a collection of Bill Vaughan quotes for you.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
– Bill Vaughan
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.”
– 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
“To err is human, to purr, feline.”
– Bill Vaughan
“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
– Bill Vaughan
“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”
– 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
“A three-day weekend is just enough time to do the things you’ve been putting off for a month.”
– Bill Vaughan
“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
– Bill Vaughan
“In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.”
– 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 aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.”
– Bill Vaughan
“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
– Bill Vaughan
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
– Bill Vaughan
“Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o’clock.”
– Bill Vaughan
“To thrive in life, you need three bones: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”
– Bill Vaughan