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
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.
funny freedom humorous
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
array buried care conduct hospitals lets method research system train
Buried (in the method by which hospitals set fees) is this array of cross-subsidies that lets our health-care system train young doctors, conduct research and care for the uninsured.
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.
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.
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.
political doe cookies
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
groundhog-day prophet disappear
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
funny witty elderly
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
home world wonderful
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.