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
sweet body-weight giving
It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
feels
I feel very bad about getting things wrong.
differences long people
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.
motivational christmas new-year
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
men work-out bird
Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.
law today would-be
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
movie stars thinking
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.
would-be television cop
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
work organization important
The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
retirement healthy busy
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.
stars worry progress
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
christmas trouble ideals
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.
ghost speak spokes
Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
real men gentleman
One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.