Known Quotes

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.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

I had no way of knowing, when I was sitting alone in that tiny bedroom, that in just a few short months, I would meet the love of my life: a man who lived across the ocean from me, in a little house by the sea.

I don’t encourage anybody to do what I do, you know? Why should you? More for me!

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.