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An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.
-- Samuel Johnson
Famous James Thurber Quotes
- Topic: Love
A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Boys
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Boys
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Indecision
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Knowledge
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Questions
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Anger
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Age
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Dogs
The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Light
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber - Topic: Thinking
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
-- James Thurber