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
inspirational funny life
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.
effort progress modern-life
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
cutting men life-is
But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.
future water-of-life obscurity
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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.
psychological-health life-is-hard healthy
The healthy life is hardly one marked by an absence of crises. In fact, an individual's psychological health is distinguished by how early he or she can meet crisis.
good hope trend
We hope the trend continues. It's good for consumers.
spring night men
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
love philosophy heart
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love?
mean self meditation
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
thinking firsts moral
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
moving humor law
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.
cutting names tree
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.