Richard J. Needham Quotes

• When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem, Seen

• For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tell, Second, Done

• Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Strong, Woman

• Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Strong, Laugh

• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, After, Services

• You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Become, Three

• I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

  Richard J. Needham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Corruption

Richard J. Needham (7)

Birth:	1912
Death:	1996
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Columnist

About

Richard J. Needham was a Canadian humour columnist for The Globe and Mail. Many of his columns were collected in a variety of books, including The Garden of Needham and Needham's Inferno, which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1967.

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