52 Quotes by Jim Bishop

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn’t rule the world.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.