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
It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
The question of whether the vice president was involved, we'll probably never know. But it was pretty close to him,
You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward
As the Justice Department gets closer and closer to him through his aides, and if he is in more trouble, certainly the Democrats will use that.
The grand jury investigation has the possibility of really shining a light on the credibility of the administration, how officials tried to undermine those who were criticizing them and how they then covered up that attempt.
what they are running from, and to, and why.
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.
One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough