Richard Armour

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress.Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.”

“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.”

“Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.”