Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Boys Quotes

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

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.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those...

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some...

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...

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

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

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards....

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards....

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a...

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

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

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

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

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

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...

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in...

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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...

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at...

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.