One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: James Thurber Quotes

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...

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...

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 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,...

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

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

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...

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

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only...

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only...

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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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.

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

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

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...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch...

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

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.

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.

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...

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...