Cleveland Amory Quotes - Page 2

There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

I will omit but I will not distort.