James Thurber

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance -- a sharp, vindictive glance.

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

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

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

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers.