Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan
William E.Vaughanwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 October 1915
CountryUnited States of America
real 4th-of-july patriotic
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
hilarious gratitude picnics
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
baseball umpires jockeys
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
army answers needed
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
pride thinking conceit
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
doctors dying long-life
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
believe book experience
Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
believe thinking world
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
heart agony organization
Of all the agonies in life, that which is most poignant and harrowing--that which for the time annihilates reason, and leaves our whole organization one lacerated, mangled heart--is the conviction that we have been deceived where we placed all the trust of love.
whales ants fine
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
sarcastic fitness sarcasm
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
nice would-be half
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
happiness baby fun
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.
strong greed desire
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.