"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why." ― James Thurber Topic(s): Men More From James Thurber "The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth." "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man." "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." More In Men "Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld "Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of."― Jonathan Swift "The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls."― Black Elk