James Thurber: Trending quotes

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

“"Who are you?" the minstrel asked. "I am the Golux," said the Golux, proudly, "the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device."”

“Beautiful things don't ask for attention.”

“Don't get it right, just get it written.”

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?”

“It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.”

“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it.”

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”

“Love is what you've been through with somebody”

“Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.”

“The dog has seldom been successful in pulling Man up to its level of sagacity, but Man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”

“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”