335 Quotes by James Thurber

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

This is the most important turning point for his administration in terms of turning down and losing support.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.