6 James Thurber Quotes on Life

James Thurber quotes on life

8. Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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

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

52. We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

72. Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

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