Richard Armour Quotes

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.