Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Quote by James Thurber

Topics: James Thurber Quotes

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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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,...

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of...

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.

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is a many splintered thing.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics...

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...

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,...