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

Quote by James Thurber

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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...

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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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,...

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

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

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

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

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Love is composed of so many sensations, that something new of it can always be...

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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...

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

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

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...