Famous quotes containing the words thurber and/or wrote:
“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)