It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption..

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps..

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense..

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober..

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

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achieveme….

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long..

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on..

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about..

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled appl….

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time..

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches m….

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

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and….

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purp….

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself..

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth..

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first..

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked..

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons..