Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Quote by James Thurber

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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.

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

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

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?

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...

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

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.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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

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

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.