"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." ― Bill Vaughan Topic(s): Patriotism More From Bill Vaughan "Muscles come and go; flab lasts." "We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics." "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." More In Patriotism "I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"― Bill Maher "Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."― Francis Ford Coppola "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."― Oscar Wilde