William E. "Bill" Vaughan was an American journalist, writer, as well as writer. Born around 1915, Vaughan began his composing profession as a sports press reporter prior to moving onto general reporting.
Vaughan benefited different papers throughout his career including United Press International, The Kansas City Star, and The New York Herald Tribune. He obtained appeal for his funny and also appealing writing style.
In addition to his job as a journalist, Vaughan released a number of books throughout his job, consisting of "Toward a Better Understanding of the Young" and also "Somehow I Don't Think We're In Kansas: Anymore".
Vaughan's writing tackled a series of topics, from national politics as well as social concerns to daily life experiences. His works commonly emphasized the relevance of humor and also optimism in handling life's difficulties.
In spite of his success as a writer, Vaughan was kept in mind by those that recognized him as a simple and also kind individual who continued to be based as well as real to himself throughout his career.
Vaughan died around 1977, but his tradition as a talented as well as influential author remains to be commemorated today.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by Bill, under the main topics: Politics - Society - Patriotism.
"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them"
"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them"
"Muscles come and go; flab lasts"
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election"
"To God, thy country, and thy friend be true"
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong"
"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"
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity"
"Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking"
"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"
"A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm"
"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them"
"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"
"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem"
"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed"
"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works"
"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does"
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves"
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to"
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics"
"The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine"
"Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day"
"The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears"
"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it"
"The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas"
