James Thurber Professions : Cartoonist Born : December 8, 1894 Died : November 2, 1961 Browse All Authors Top 185 quotes by James Thurber Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern. James Thurber There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber She can't recuse herself [if she becomes president], whether it influences her decision making is questionable, but it is a legitimate thing to focus on by her political opposition. James Thurber politics Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. James Thurber dead rise man bed Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. James Thurber happen man old-age unexpected age Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alison Bechdel cartoonist Alex Toth cartoonist All Authors