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
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was pretty close to him,
It's made it more difficult for his agenda generally and it certainly has made it more difficult in the Supreme Court nomination battle. As we've seen with other presidents, when presidents encounter serious difficulties, they tend to have to compromise.
The news of continuing deaths cannot be overcome by speeches.
It's going to be almost impossible to overcome the perception about the president that he didn't show compassion and didn't get control of the policy failures. The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.
The vivid images that are coming across the television are really destroying his image as a leader.
It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption
It is perhaps the last frontier of essentially unregulated campaign cash contributions.
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 always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.