James Thurber
22 quotations
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
Discussion in America means dissent.
A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?