Cleveland Amory Quotes

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The New England conscience …does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't—it just stops you from enjoying it.

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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind.

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You can't make the duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

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One of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

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In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

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I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

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

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You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

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