Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. - Winston S. Churchill

  2. The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. - Joe Abercrombie

  3. But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible. - Jane Austen

  4. It takes a very long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso

  5. Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. - Joe Abercrombie

More Quotes By James Thurber
  1. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

  2. If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

  3. You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  4. You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.

  5. Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

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