Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
James ThurberAll men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
James ThurberMan has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
James ThurberIt did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.
James Thurber