The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: Funny Quotes, Future Quotes, Past Quotes, The Present Quotes, Time Quotes

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...

Don't get it right, just get it written

Don't get it right, just get it written

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

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

Discussion in America means dissent.

Discussion in America means dissent.

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

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

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or...

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...

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...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there...

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.

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...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you...

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you...

I am having more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met

I am having more trouble with myself than any other man I have ever met