The Trouble with Nowadays: A Curmudgeon Strikes Back

A Crusty Curmudgeon and Charter Member of The Society to Put Things Back The Way They Were, bestselling author Cleveland Amory offers the last word on everything that has made a shambles out of modern life.

Servants: I have often wondered where all the good, old-fashioned servants have gone. They must be somewhere, they couldn’t have all died.

The Government: The only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans are socialists and the Democrats are communists.

Women: The day I put ‘Ms.’ on a letter of mine, it’ll be either to someone else’s mistress or the Bureau of Msing Persons.

Children: Remember, children are, no matter how much we detest them, the you and me of tomorrow.

Foreign Affairs: 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.

Religion: Nowadays Sunday is just one more excuse to do whatever you damn please.