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

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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell...

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.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

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,...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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

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

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...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours...

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...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between...

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure...

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure...

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

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

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and...

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and...

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in...

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in...