P. D. Armour Quotes

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.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

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

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

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

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

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

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

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

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

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

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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.

This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on the green in two.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

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.

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

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

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.

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

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

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

They head the list of bad to bet on: But I insist they're worse to get on

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

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

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.

[John Foster Dulles] invented Brinkmanship, the most popular game since Monopoly.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

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

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.