Richard Armour Quotes

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

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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

  Richard Armour

  Voice, People, Mind

  Richard Armour (1961). “A Safari Into Satire”

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

  Richard Armour

  Goodbye, Money, Good Bye

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

  Richard Armour

  Birthday, People, Age

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

  Richard Armour

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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

  Richard Armour

  Men, World, Adam And Eve

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• Shake and shake
  the catsup bottle
  none will come
  and then a lot'll.

  Richard Armour

  Bottles, Shakes

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

  Richard Armour

  Rumor, Spread, One Thing

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Fun, Golf, Thrill

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

  Richard Armour

  Dream, Facts, Nightmare

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Leadership, Sports, Unhappy

  Richard Willard Armour, “Good Sportsmanship”

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• Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

  Richard Armour

  People, Tunes, Seems

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

  Richard Armour

  Mean, Polished, Finished

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

  Richard Armour

  Ice Cream, Helping, Sometimes

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• The hand is quicker than the eye is,
  but somewhat slower than the fly is.

  Richard Armour

  Eye, Hands

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Oil, Made, Crude

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

  Richard Armour

  Feet, Hands, Years

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  Offending, May, Radio

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

  Richard Armour

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Now And Then

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Thinking, History, Plot

  Richard Armour, William Shakespeare (1957). “Twisted Tales from Shakespeare, in which Shakespeare's Best-known Plays are Presented in a New Light: The Old Light Having Blown a Fuse; Together with Introductions, Questions, Appendices, and Other Critical Apparatus Intended to Contribute to a Clearer Misunderstanding of the Subject”, new American Library of Canada

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Stupidity, Weakness, Endless

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• If you convinced me And I convinced you, Would there not still be Two points of view?

  Richard Armour

  Views, Two, Opinion

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• The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

  Richard Armour

  Couple, Hair, Elderly

  Richard Willard Armour, “Too Have And Too Old”

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

  Richard Armour

  Teacher, Retirement, Tired

  Richard Armour (1976). “Going Like Sixty: A Lighthearted Look at the Later Years”

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