Quote #24
Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
More from James Thurber
- 'Who are you?' the minstrel asked. 'I am the Golux,' said the Golux, proudly, 'the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device.'
- A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
- 'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that …
- Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
- The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
- Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.
- All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.