Richard Armour

“Shoplifters of the world unite and take over.”

“No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.”

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

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“If you want a track team to win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.”

“The first thing a young writer must learn is that he is a writer, not a waiter.”

“The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.”

“In the middle of the night, things well buried should stay buried.”