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

Quote by James Thurber

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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...

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...

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.

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.

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,...

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...

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face...

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow,...

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

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

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.