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
letters easy natural
Letters should be easy and natural.
gossip myth grows
When gossip grows old it becomes myth.
humility embroidery chiefs
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
music real
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
weed garden gardener
Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
dark window crime
Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
owl palaces spiders
The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
honesty mistake responsibility
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
democracy aristocracy poverty
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.
other-worlds evil world
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
effort deep-thought climbs
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
forever lasts rejoice
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
tombstone two names
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.
forgiveness character citizens
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.