If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

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.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.