Quote #16

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

More from James Thurber

  1. It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
  2. Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. (sic)
  3. Don't get it right, just get it written.
  4. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.
  5. He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
  6. All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
  7. Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
  8. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

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