335 Quotes by James Thurber

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.