Richard Willard Armour (July 15, 1906 – February 28, 1989) was an American poet and author who wrote more than 65 books.
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.
[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
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.
Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.
Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.
G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.
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.
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.
The hand is quicker than the eye is, but somewhat slower than the fly is.
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.
Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.
I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.
Shake and shake the catsup bottle none will come and then a lot'll.
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.