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
commitment thinking care
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
giving-up love-you commitment
Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.
athlete commitment giving
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
betrayal lying commitment
All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.
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.
heaven way pity
What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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.
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.
funny money educational
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
sports discipline would-be
Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.