There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: James Thurber Quotes

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the...

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity,...

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound,...

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the...

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the...

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

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

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

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

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

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our...

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

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

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

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

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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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

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

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

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

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the...

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the...

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...