James Thurber American Quotations

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

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.