The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self. |
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind |
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative |
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. |
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. |
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. |
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year |
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. |
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. |
What is life? We are born, we live a little and we die. |
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor |
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor |
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. |
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. |