Famous quotes containing the words thurber and/or wrote:
“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)