Quotes by Thurber, James

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more fo >>

Love is what you've been through with somebody. >>

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of me >>

Quotations about Spirit and Spirituality

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained >>

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the >>

The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him. >>

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Thurber, James