James Thurber Quotes on Life
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
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All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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.
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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.