Richard Armour Quotes
An American poet and author who wrote over sixty-five books.
(1906 - 1989)
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Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.
[Family]
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Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
[Beauty]
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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.
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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.
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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
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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.
[Politics]
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.
[Success]
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
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