Richard Armour
Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.
Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.
“Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.”
Richard Armour
“The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.”
Richard Armour
“Here is where people,One frequently finds,Lower their voicesAnd raise their minds.”
Richard Armour
“That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye”
Richard Armour
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
Richard Armour
“Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.”
Richard Armour