335 Quotes by James Thurber

The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

This is a very black day for the White House, and it's going to be very hard for the president to dig out of this. Bush is in trouble. He is going to have a difficult time moving any part of his domestic agenda.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

He's very bright, but he's too extreme for a lot of people,