5 James Thurber Quotes on Time

James Thurber quotes on time

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

13. He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

35. Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light ... We all know that, as the old adage has it, 'It is later than you think.' ..., but I also say occasionally: 'It is lighter than you think.' In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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

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