Famous Quotes / James Thurber
86 Quotations by James Thurber
- 41. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- 42. It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawin ...
- 43. It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption ...
- 44. It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- 45. Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've ...
- 46. Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
- 47. Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
- 48. Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- 49. Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear ...
- 50. My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ...
- 51. My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of ex ...
- 52. My opposition [to interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of ex ...
- 53. Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of Man lies in the fact that thi ...
- 54. No other editor has ever been lost and saved so often in the course of a working week. When his hear ...
- 55. Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- 56. Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- 57. One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his saga ...
- 58. Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; ...
- 59. Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both ...
- 60. Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both ...