Richard Armour biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Richard Armour

Author Name:

Richard Armour

Born As:

Richard Armour

Other Names:

Richard Armour

Born:

1906

Died:

1989




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Poet author and humourist                          
Bibliography

It all Started with Columbus - American history parodied
It all Started with Eve 1956 - Humorous history of women
It all Started with Europa August 1955 - European history parodied
It all Started with Marx - Humorous history of communism
The Classics Reclassified
Twisted Tales from Shakespeare
English Lit Relit
American Lit Relit
Nights with Armour
Punctured Poems
Our Presidents
It All Started with Hippocrates, 1966 - Humorous history of medicine
The Medical Muse, 1963 - humorous medical poetry
Going Like Sixty, 1974 - humorous look at aging
The Academic Bestiary, 1974 - humorous look at higher learning
To These Dark Steps - play
An Armoury of Light Verse
For Partly Proud Parents - verse
Golf Bawls - verse
Leading with My Left - verse
Private Lives - verse
The Spouse in the House - verse
Yours for the Asking -verse
Armour's Almanac
A Diabolical Dictionary of Education
Drug Store Days
Going Around in Academic Circles
Golf is a Four-Letter Word
The Happy Bookers
It All Started with Freshman English
It All Started with Stones and Clubs
My Life with Women
Out of My Mind
A Safari into Satire
A Short History of Sex
Through Darkest Adolescence
Writing Light Verse
Writing Light Verse and Prose Humour
All in Sport
The Strange Dreams of Rover Jones
The Adventures of Egbert the Easter Egg - children's book
All Sizes and Shapes of Monkeys and Apes - children's book
Animals on the Ceiling - children's book
A Dozen Dinosaurs - children's book
Odd Old Mammals - children's book
On Your Marks: A Package of Punctuation - children's book
Sea Full of Whales - children's book
Who's in Holes? - children's book
The Year Santa Went Modern - children's book                          
                          
                          
Another popular quatrain of his, also usually attributed erroneously to Nash, is: 
Nothing attracts
the mustard from wieners
as much as the slacks
just back from the cleaners.