Richard Armour
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Biography
Richard Willard Armour was an American poet and prose writer who wrote more than 65 books.
"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 you've got it."
"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."
"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."
"Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents."
"It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress.Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed."
"some libraries are no longer called libraries but are known as Learning Resource Centers or Media Centers. Librarians, however, are still generally known as librarians and not yet as Learning Resourcists or Media Centerists, though this may be only a matter of time."
"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then."
"Some people can carry a tune but they seem to stagger under the load."
"There is some consolation in the fact that even though your dreams don't come true neither do your nightmares."
"Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world."