If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

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

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

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