He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: James Thurber Quotes

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.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line...

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's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by...

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

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

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...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is a many splintered thing.

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...

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.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

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

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