Quotes by Thurber, James

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

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. >>

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

Quotations about Purpose

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. >>

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized >>

The secret to success is constancy to purpose. >>

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James