Quotes from Cleveland Amory

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

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

Support your right to arm bears.

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

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

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

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 kind.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

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?

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

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.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

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

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

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.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

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.

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

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

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.