James Thurber
James Thurber
James Grover Thurberwas an American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright, and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker magazine and collected in his numerous books. One of the most popular humorists of his time, Thurber celebrated the comic frustrations and eccentricities of ordinary people. In collaboration with his college friend Elliott Nugent, he wrote the Broadway comedy The Male Animal, later adapted into a film, which starred Henry Fonda and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 December 1894
CityColumbus, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness
Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
I thought once he was out, people would move on. But he is still there, concentrating power within the leadership and himself.
Most presidents eventually have to shed people who are liabilities in order to survive.
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers
I think that if he doesn't do well with the high-profile races where he's appearing, it could hurt him.
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
He was quite confident. He's smart, articulate and polite.
He is perceived to be a liability at this point, and it's not just what comes from this particular court case.