It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

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

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.

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.