80 Quotes by Richard Armour

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye

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.

Scott calls Bois-Guilbert 'an unprincipled voluptuary,' which is hard to improve on.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

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

...you would do well to turn from Chapter XXXVI to Chapter CXXXIII without further delay, thus saving nearly a hundred chapters without anybody's knowing the difference if you keep quiet. After all, Ahab isn't the only one entitled to be a skipper.

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.

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

Dedicated to that amazing device, the Required Reading List, better even than artificial respiration for keeping dead authors alive.